Title

Action : the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Theater Festival / edited by Miguel Algarin and Lois Griffith.

Publication

New York : Simon & Schuster, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Algarín, Miguel.
• Griffith, Lois.
• Nuyorican Poets Cafe Theater Festival.

Description

xvii, 551 pages; 22 cm

Subjects

• American drama > Puerto Rican authors
• American drama > New York (State) > New York
• American drama > 20th century
• Puerto Ricans > New York (State) > New York > Drama

Note

• "A Touchstone book."
• Anthology of plays performed at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Theater Festival in New York City.

Contents

• Foreword: Life Action -- Introduction / Miguel Algarin -- Life During Wartime / Wesley Brown -- Hubba City / Ishmael Reed -- Howya Doin' Franky Banana / Peter Spiro -- The Election Machine Warehouse / Amiri Baraka -- Playland Blues / Miguel Pinero -- Estorias del Barrio: Un Ghost / Eugene Rodriguez -- Estorias del Barrio: Special People of International Character / Frank Perez -- Just the Boys / Dennis Moritz -- Between Blessings / Gloria Feliciano -- The Preacher and the Rapper / Ishmael Reed -- The Crime / Glenn Wright and Raul Santiago Sebazco -- White Sirens / Lois Elaine Griffith -- Amor de Mis Amores / Eva Gasteazoro -- Chapter & Verse / Carl Hancock Rux -- I Live in Music / Ntozake Shange -- Transplantations: Straight and Other Jackets Para Mi / Janis Astor del Valle -- Savage Wilds / Ishmael Reed -- El Cabron / El Reverendo Pedro Pietri -- The Goong Hay Kid / Alvin Eng -- Primitive World: An Anti-Nuclear Jazz Musical / Amiri Baraka --
• Afterword / Miguel Algarin.

ISBN

0684826119

LCCN

97027602

OCLC

• 37293307
• ocm37293307

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries