Southern women playwrights
Subtitle: new essays in literary history and criticism
By: edited by Robert L. McDonald and Linda Rohrer Paige.
Contributors: McDonald, Robert L., 1964-; Paige, Linda Rohrer, 1948-
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa, Ala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: American drama -- Southern States -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.; Dramatists, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southern States.; American drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Southern States -- Intellectual life.; Southern States -- In literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The current state of scholarship on southern women playwrights / Robert L. Mcdonald; title: "Let the people sing!" : Zora Neale Hurston and the dream of a Negro theater / John Lowe; title: These four : Hellman's roots are showing / Theresa R. Mooney; title: Carson McCullers, Lillian Smith, and the politics of Broadway / Judith Giblin James; title: The delayed entrance of Lily Mae Jenkins : queer identity, gender ambiguity, and southern ambivalence in Carson McCullers's  The member of the wedding /  Betty E. Mckinnie and Carlos L. Dews; title: "Controversy only means disagreement" : Alice Childress' Activist drama / Donna Lisker; title: Role-ing on the river : Actors Theatre of Louisville and the southern woman playwright / Elizabeth S. Bell; title: Precursor and protégé : Lillian Hellman and Marsha Norman / Sally Burke; title: "Un-ruling" the woman : comedy and the plays of Beth Henley and Rebecca Gilman / Janet L. Gupton; title: Pseudonymy and identity politics : exploring "Jane Martin" / J. Ellen Gainor; title: Dialectic and the drama of Naomi Wallace / Claudia Barnett; title: Amparo Garcia and the eyes of Tejas : Texas community through Mexicana eyes / Carolyn Roark; title: Reconfiguring history : migration, memory, and (re)membering in Suzan-Lori Parks's plays / Elizabeth Brown-Guillory; title: The memory palace in Paula Vogel's plays / Alan Shepard and Mary Lamb; title: Postmodern monologues in Regina Porter's tripping through the Car house / Mary Resing; title: Southern women playwrights and the Atlanta hub : home is the place where you go / Linda Rohrer Paige.