Four Black revolutionary plays : all praises to the Black man / LeRoi Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014.

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Drama.

African Americans.

Revolutionary literature.

Genre:

Drama.

Lask Poetry Collection.

Penn Provenance:

Lask, Thomas (donor) (RBC copy)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 89 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1969.

Contents:

Experimental Death Unit #1

A Black Mass

Great Goodness of Life

Madheart

Why No J-E-L-L-O?

Notes:

"Designed by Quentin Fiore."

"First printing 1969."

"Experimental Death Unit #1 was first performed at the St. Mark's Playhouse, New York City, on March 1, 1965 ... A Black Mass was first performed at Proctor's Theatre, Newark, in May, 1966 ... Great Goodness of Life was first performed at Spirit House, Newark, by the Spirit House Movers, in November 1967 ... Madheart was first performed at San Francisco State College in May 1967 ... It was first published by William Morrow & Co., Inc. in Black Fire, an anthology of Afro-American writing ..."

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy is paperbound edition with portrait of author on back cover.

OCLC:

47882