Black comedy : nine plays : a critical anthology with interviews and essays / edited by Pamela Faith Jackson and Karimah.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jackson, Pamela Faith.

Karimah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American drama (Comedy)--African American authors.

American drama (Comedy).

American drama (Comedy)--African American authors--History and criticism.

American drama--20th century--History and criticism.

American drama.

African American dramatists--20th century--Interviews.

African American dramatists.

African Americans in literature.

American drama--20th century.

African Americans--Drama.

African Americans.

Interviews.

African American authors.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

xii, 499 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Applause, [1997]

Summary:

The humor of African-American life is inextricably tied to the humor on the African-American stage, its character shaped by the contradictions of being Black and Bewildered and Bothered in the New World. It is a humor that breathes sanity and humanity in the midst of profound circumstances. To find logic in this existence is at the heart of the African-American comic odyssey.

Writers who understand the mythic comic paradigm articulate the rage, the panic, the contradictions of a New World existence. African-American humor functions to heal, to clarify...This is the work of generations healing the wounds. To laugh is to diffuse the powerful fuse of rage burning beneath the soul.e

Notes:

"An Applause original"--P. [ii].

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1557832781

OCLC:

36470292