Peculiar passages : black women playwrights, 1875 to 2000 / Carol Dawn Allen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, Carol, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American drama--African American authors--History and criticism.

American drama.

American drama--African American authors.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

African American women--Intellectual life.

African American women.

United States.

History.

Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.

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

American drama--19th century--History and criticism.

African American women in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Physical Description:

295 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2005]

Contents:

Introduction

Peculiar Juno : staging Black female pleasure

Bridging the modern : neurotic sentimentality encounters racial uplift in Angelina Weld Grimké's Rachel

Houses against violence : early-twentieth-century Black women playwrights

When saints build frames : sacred/secular musical pageantry in Alice Childress's plays

Sailing/sealing over ravines : process as constant in the work of Adrienne Kennedy

Dipped in the pool : Shange's choreopoems as Atlantic crossings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-282) and index.

ISBN:

0820476196

082047620X

OCLC:

56481275