African American Women Playwrights
Subtitle: A Research Guide (Critical Studies on Black Life and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: June 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780815323846
Subjects: Multicultural studies; Plays & playwrights; Women's studies; Plays / Drama; Bibliography; Women As Authors (American Literature); African American Drama; Drama; English; Literary Criticism; USA; Bio-bibliography; American - African American & Black; Women Authors; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; United States; African American women; American; Women and literature; African American authors; American drama; Intellectual life
First sentence: According to Margaret Wilkerson, The Purple Flower by Marita Bonner (1898-1971), is "perhaps the most provocative play" created by a black woman in the early part of this century.