Black South African women : an anthology of plays / edited by Kathy A. Perkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Perkins, Kathy A., 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women, Black--South Africa--Drama.

Women, Black.

South African drama (English)--Black authors.

South African drama (English).

Women authors.

South Africa.

South African drama (English)--Women authors.

Black people--South Africa--Drama.

Black people.

English drama--20th century.

English drama.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

vi, 177 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Summary:

"Black South African Women" is the first single-volume anthology to focus exclusively on the lives of Black South African women. These ten plays about Black South African women challenge simple understandings of life in South Africa both before and after Apartheid, and represent the leading edge of the arts in the emerging new South Africa. Issues such as women s rights, displacement from home, family unity and cohesion, racial identity, education in the old and new South Africa, and issues involving health care all find voices in these pages. These theatrical works, along with verbatim interviews with the playwrights, reach beyond the theater doors onto a stage where a new nation with new prospects, and new challenges, awaits.

Contents:

Introduction / Kathy A. Perkins

A Coloured place / Lueen Conning

So what's new? / Fatima Dike

House-hunting unlike Soweto / Sindiwe Magona

Cheaper than roses / Ismail Mahomed

Umongikazi/The nurse / Maishe Maponya

Have you seen Zandile? / Geina Mhlophe

WEEMEN / Thulani S. Mtshali

Flight from the Mahabarath / Muthal Naidoo

Sheila's day / Duma Ndlovu

Kwa-landlady / Magi Noninzi Williams.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 177).

ISBN:

0415182433

0415182441

OCLC:

38884159