Title: Staging Black Fugitivity
Description: "Argues that contemporary black dramas use the slave past to complicate views of the history of slavery, the realities of racial progress, and black subjectivity. McCormick analyzes work by August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Tanya Barfield, Lorraine Hansberry, Lydia Diamond, Robert O'Hara, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, amongst others"--
Subjects: American drama, African American authors, History and criticism, Slavery in literature, African Americans, Race identity, Racism in literature, 18.06 Anglo-American literature