Black female playwrights : an anthology of plays before 1950 / Kathy A. Perkins, [editor].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Perkins, Kathy A., 1954- editor.

Johnson, Georgia Douglas, 1886-1966, playwright.

Burrill, Mary, 1884-1946, playwright.

Hurston, Zora Neale, playwright.

Spence, Eulalie, 1894-1981, playwright.

Miller, May, 1899-1995, playwright.

Bonner, Marita, 1898-1971, playwright.

Du Bois, Shirley Graham, 1896-1977, playwright.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Blacks in the diaspora

A Midland Book ; MB 623

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American drama--African American authors.

American drama.

Women and literature--United States.

Women and literature.

American drama--Women authors.

African American women--Drama.

African American women.

United States.

African Americans--Drama.

African Americans.

Genre:

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, viii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 288 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Edition:

[First Midland Book Edition].

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1990].

Contents:

Plumes ; A Sunday morning in the south ; Blue blood ; Blue-eyed black boy / Georgia Douglas Johnson

Aftermath ; They that sit in darkness / Mary P. Burrill

The first one ; Color struck / Zora Neale Hurston

Undertow ; Fool's errand ; Her / Eulalie Spence

Stragglers in the dust ; Riding the goat ; Christophe's daughters ; Harriet Tubman / May Miller

The purple flower ; Exit: an illusion / Marita Bonner

It's morning ; I gotta home / Shirley Graham.

Notes:

"First Midland Book Edition 1990"

"Plays and pageants by Black women before 1950": pages [281]-285.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-288).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0253343585

9780253343581

0253206235

9780253206237

OCLC:

23257774