The Roots of African American drama : an anthology of early plays, 1858-1938 /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hamalian, Leo, 1920-2003, Hatch, James V. (James Vernon), 1928-2020
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, ©1991.
Series:African American life series.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1858-1938.
American drama > African American authors.
African Americans > Drama.
American drama > African American authors > Literary collections.
African Americans in literature.
Théâtre américain > Auteurs noirs américains > Anthologies.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
Théâtre américain > Auteurs noirs américains.
DRAMA > American.
African Americans in literature
African Americans
American drama > African American authors
Drama
Anthologie
Schwärze
USA
Literary collections
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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