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Additional authors

1. Hatch, James V. (James Vernon), 1928-2020.
2. Shine, Ted.

Description

1. xix, 916 p.; 26 cm.

Alternative title

1. Black theater, U.S.A.

Subject

1. American drama -- African American authors
2. African Americans -- Drama

Contents

1. The Black doctor / Ira Aldridge -- The brown overcoat / Victor Séjour -- The escape; or, a leap for freedom / William Wells Brown -- In Dahomey / Paul Laurence Dunbar and Jesse A. Shipp -- Star of Ethiopia / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Why we are at war / United States Food Administration -- Appearances / Garland Anderson -- Rachel / Angelina Grimké -- Mine eyes have seen / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Aftermath / Mary Burrill -- They that sit in darkness / Mary Burrill -- For unborn children / Myrtle Smith Livingston -- The church fight / Ruth Gaines Shelton -- Undertow / Eulalie Spence -- The purple flower / Marita Odette (Occomy) Bonner -- The deacon's awakening / Willis Richardson -- Balo / Jean Toomer -- A Sunday morning in the South / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- 'Cruiter / John Matheus -- Old man Pete / Randolph Edmonds -- Job hunters / H.F.V. Edward -- Don't you want to be free? / Langston Hughes -- Big white fog / Theodore Ward -- The first one / Zora Neale Hurston -- Graven images / May Miller -- Natural man / Theodore Browne -- A soldier's play / Charles Fuller -- Liberty deferred / John D. Silvera and Abram Hill -- Mulatto / Langston Hughes -- Native son / Richard Wright and Paul Green -- Take a giant step / Louis Peterson -- A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry -- Ceremonies in dark old men / Lonne Elder III -- The tumult and the shouting / Thomas Pawley -- Limitations of life / Langston Hughes -- On Strivers Row / Abram Hill -- Day of absence / Douglas Turner Ward -- The amen corner / James Baldwin -- The confession stone / Owen Dodson -- Funnyhouse of a Negro / Adrienne Kennedy -- Wine in the wilderness / Alice Childress -- For colored girls who have considered suicide ... / Ntozake Shange -- Sally's rape / Robbie McCauley -- Dutchman / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) -- Goin' a Buffalo / Ed Bullins -- Prayer meeting; or, the first militant preacher / Ben Caldwell -- Contribution / Ted Shine -- Blk love song #1 / Kalamu ya Salaam -- The colored museum / George C. Wolfe -- The mojo and the sayso / Aishah Rahman -- Fires in the mirror / Anna Deavere Smith.

Call number

1. Sc F 98-241

Note

1. Rev. ed. of: Black theater, U.S.A.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Title

1. Black theatre USA : plays by African Americans 1847 to today / edited by James V. Hatch, Ted Shine.

Imprint

1. New York : Free Press, c1996.

Edition

1. Rev. and expanded ed.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Added author

1. Hatch, James V. (James Vernon), 1928-2020.
2. Shine, Ted.

Added title

1. Black theater, U.S.A.

ISBN

1. 0684823063

Research call number

1. Sc F 98-241