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Description

1. xii, 200 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

1. "The Black Arts Movement (1965-76) consisted of artists across the United States deeply concerned with the relationship between politics and the black aesthetic. In Search of Our Warrior Mothers examines the ways in which black women playwrights in the movement advanced feminist and womanist perspectives from within black nationalist discourses. La Donna L. Forsgren recuperates the careers, artistic theories, and dramatic contributions of four leading playwrights: Martie Evans-Charles, J.e. Franklin, Sonia Sanchez, and Barbara Ann Teer. Using original interviews, production recordings, playbills, and unpublished manuscripts, she investigates how these women, despite operating within a context that equated the collective well-being of black people with black male agency, created works that validated black women's aspirations for autonomy and explored women's roles in the struggle for black liberation. In Search of Our Warrior Mothers demonstrates the powerful contributions of women to the creation, interpretation, and dissemination of black aesthetic theory, thus opening an interdisciplinary conversation at the intersections of theater, performance, feminist, and African American studies and identifying and critiquing the gaps and silences within these fields."--Page 4 of cover.

Subject

1. American drama > Women authors
2. American drama > African American authors
3. Teer, Barbara Ann
4. Franklin, J. E (Jennie Elizabeth), 1937-
5. Black author
6. American drama > Women authors > 20th century > History and criticism
7. Teer, Barbara Ann > Criticism and interpretation
8. Franklin, J. E (Jennie Elizabeth), 1937- > Criticism and interpretation
9. Feminist theater
10. 1900-1999
11. American drama > African American authors > 20th century > History and criticism
12. Criticism, interpretation, etc
13. Black Arts movement
14. Charles, Martie > Criticism and interpretation
15. Sanchez, Sonia, 1934- > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Introduction -- "Set your blackness free" : Barbara Ann Teer's art and activism -- "We black women" : Martie Evans-Charles and the spirits of Black womanhood -- "Armed prophet" : Sonia Sanchez and the weapon of words -- "Bring your wounded hearts" : J.e. Franklin and the art of liberation -- Epilogue. Let the search continue -- Appendix A. Chronology of Barbara Ann Teer -- Appendix B. Chronology of Martie Evans-Charles -- Appendix C. Chronology of Sonia Sanchez -- Appendix D. Chronology of J.e. Franklin.

Call number

1. Sc E 18-479

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-194) and index.

Author

1. Forsgren, La Donna L., author.

Title

1. In search of our warrior mothers : women dramatists of the Black Arts movement / La Donna L. Forsgren.

Publisher

1. Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.

Copyright date

1. ©2018

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-194) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

Local subject

1. Black author.

LCCN

1. 2017041790

Other standard identifier

1. 99976245639

ISBN

1. 9780810136939 paperback ; alkaline paper
2. 0810136937 paperback ; alkaline paper
3. 9780810136946 hardcover ; alkaline paper
4. 0810136945 hardcover ; alkaline paper
5. 9780810136953 electronic book

Research call number

1. Sc E 18-479