Black Women Playwrights

Black Women Playwrights
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9781317944935
ISBN-13 : 1317944933
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Book Synopsis Black Women Playwrights by : Carol P. Marsh-Lockett

Download or read book Black Women Playwrights written by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of critical essays on plays by African American female playwrights from the post-reconstruction period to the present provides thematic analyses of plays by major and less widely known African American women playwrights The contributors examine the plays as vehicles of public discourse, and as explorations of issues of African American identity. Essays explore the themes of sexuality, agency, anger, and self-concept in the plays of African American Women.


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