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The Roots of African American drama : an anthology of early plays, 1858-1938 / edited by Leo Hamalian and James V. Hatch ; foreword by George C. Wolfe.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- African American Life Series
- African American life series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American drama--African American authors.
- American drama.
- African Americans--Drama.
- African Americans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (457 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c1991.
- Summary:
- This volume rescues from obscurity thirteen plays by early African American writers.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Two hundred years of black and white drama / James V. Hatch
- The Escape: or, A Leap for Freedom (1858) / William Wells Brown
- Peculiar Sam, or The Underground Railroad (1879) / Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
- Aunt Betsy's Thanksgiving (c.1914) / Katherine D. Chapman Tillman
- Aftermath (1919) / Mary Burrill
- Black Vaudeville (c.1920) / Butterbeans and Susie (Jodie and Susie Edwards)
- The Chip Woman's Fortune (1923) / Willis Richardson
- The First One (1927) / Zora Neale Hurston
- Help Wanted (1929) / Joseph S. Mitchell
- Tom-Tom (1932) / Shirley Graham
- The Sharecropper (1932) / George A. Towns
- Nails and Thorns (1933) / May Miller
- The Shining Town (1937) / Owen Vincent Dodson
- On Strivers Row (1938) / Abram Hill.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-454).
- ISBN:
- 9780814338476
- 081433847X
- OCLC:
- 643862457
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