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Available
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Collection
Publication
Mentor (1986), Paperback, 512 pages
Description
Collection of nine plays written by African-American women including Lorraine Hansberry, Aishah Rahman, and Alice Childress.
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LibraryThing member SquirrelTao
This is not a book to read just to read plays by black women. Many of the plays in this collection push the boundaries of the conventions of theatre, while remaining astonishingly warm and human, not being coldly experimental. I had to read this as a class assignment, and I right away saw it as a
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token collection. That was an unfortunate first impression, and it was soon burned away by the intense experience of getting to know the plays. I learned that the nature of her very experience of her own identity as a black woman in America made it necessary for a playright like Adrienne Kennedy to innovate in highly effective and interesting ways. Show Less
Language
Original publication date
1986
Physical description
508 p.; 7 inches
ISBN
0451625064 / 9780451625069
Local notes
Beah Richards: Black Woman Speaks. Lorraine Hansberry: Toussaint. Alice Childress: Wedding Band. Alexis DeVeaux: The Tapestry. Aishah Rahman: Unfinished Women Cry in No Man’s Land While a Bird Dies in a Gilded Cage. Ntozake Shange: Spell #7. Kathleen Collins: The Brothers. Elaine Jackson: Paper Dolls. P. J. Gibson: Brown Silk and Magenta Sunsets