The Roots of African American Drama
An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [1991]
Format: Book
Description: 454 pages ; 24 cm.
This volume rescues from obscurity thorteen plays by early African American writers.
Series: African American life series.
Contents:
Foreword / George C. Wolfe -- Preface – Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Two Hundred Years of Black and White Drama / James V Hatch -- William Wells Brown -- The Escape: or, A Leap for Freedom (1858) -- Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins -- Peculiar Sam, or the Underground Railroad (1879) -- Katherine D. Chapman Tillman -- Aunt Betsy’s Thanksgiving (c. 1914) -- Mary Burrill -- Aftermath (1919) -- Butterbeans and Susie (Jodie and Susie Edwards) -- Black Vaudeville (c. 1920) -- Willis Richardson -- The Chip Woman’s Fortune (1923) -- Zora Deale Hurston -- The First One (1921) -- Joseph S. Mitchell -- Help Wanted (1929) -- Shirley Graham -- Tom-Tom (1932) -- George A. Towns -- The Sharecropper (1932) -- May Miller -- Nils and Thorns (1933) -- Owen Vincet Dodson -- The Shining Town (1938) -- General Bibliography
ISBN:
0814321410 (alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Drama Roo | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
LITERATURE Drama Roo | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Adult | In |
LITERATURE Drama Roo | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-454).