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Black comedy : nine plays : a critical anthology with interviews and essays / edited by Pamela Faith Jackson and Karimah.
LIBRA PS628.N4 B52 1997
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- 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
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