Title: Reading contemporary African American drama : fragments of history, fragments of self /
Authors: Harris, Trudier
Publisher: Peter Lang,
Year: 2007
Subjects: American drama African American authors History and criticism; History in literature.; Slavery in literature; Self in literature.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; African Americans Race identity; African Americans in literature
Contents: "Education has spoiled many a good plow hand" : how Beneatha's knowledge functions in A raisin in the sun / Rachelle S. Gold -- Dutchman's signifyin(g) subway : how Amiri Baraka takes Ralph Ellison underground / Matthew Luter -- No blues for Mister Henry : locating Richard's revolution / Meredith M. Malburne -- African queens and messed-up chicks : representations of identity in Alice Childress's Wine in the wilderness / Joy E. Cranshaw -- Child's play : Ntozake Shange's audience of colored girls / Pamela Hamilton -- Flyin' "anyplace else" : (dis)engaging traumatic memory in three plays by Pearl Cleage / Benjamin Sammons -- "A world made in my image" : Romare Bearden's collagist technique in August Wilson's Joe Turner's come and gone / John M. Hannah -- Signifying Raisin : Hansberry's A raisin in the sun and Wilson's Fences / John M. Hannah -- Folding and unfolding history : identity fabrication in Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/underdog / Jennifer Larson -- "With deliberate calculation" : money, sex, and the black playwright in Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus / Jennifer Larson.