Description
Book SynopsisThe book demonstrates the experiences of Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, and Suzan-Lori Parks in comparison with the dramas of each other and those of other African American women. These women playwrights created a militant theatre and a theatre of experience that applied to both the African American community in general and African and African American women in particular. They have been encompassed within African American woman’s aesthetics that shares the militancy and experiencecharacterized by a triple factor: race, gender, and class.
Trade Review“Though this book deals with the issues of race, gender, and class, it focuses on their repercussions on African American women in a different way. The historical oppressions and the struggle of African American dramatists, both male and female, have been exposed with a difference. Their hardship, leadership, motherhood, womanhood, intellect, and artistic expressions have enhanced the African American community, which has been exhibited in African American drama and theater.” —Dr. Morey Dipak Tryambak, Assistant Professor, University of Hyderabad, India.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Foreword; Chapter 1- Introduction to Dramatic Movement of African American Women; Chapter 2- Alice Childress; Chapter 3- Lorraine Hansberry; Chapter 4- Suzan-Lori Parks; Chapter 5- Conclusions; Bibliography; Index
