Reading Contemporary African American Drama: Fragments of History, Fragments of Self by Thompson, Carlyle V.

Reading Contemporary African American Drama: Fragments of History, Fragments of Self (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820488868)

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Reading Contemporary African American Drama: Fragments of History, Fragments of Self by Thompson, Carlyle V.

Reading Contemporary African American Drama: Fragments of History, Fragments of Self

$44.00
Reading Contemporary African American Drama: Fragments of History, Fragments of Self by Thompson, Carlyle V.

Reading Contemporary African American Drama: Fragments of History, Fragments of Self

$44.00
Format: Paperback
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Contemporary African American dramatists such as Amiri Baraka, James Baldwin, August Wilson, and Suzan-Lori Parks as well as Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, and Pearl Cleage find their creative inspiration in historical events from slavery to the civil rights movement. From the Emmett Till-inspired character in Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie to Parks's recreation of Lincoln and Booth, these playwrights show that history is the mirror that shapes the identities of African American writers and characters.

Author: Carlyle V. Thompson
ISBN-10: 0820488860
ISBN-13: 9780820488868
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 04/03/2007
Pages: 223
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.52d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2007 pg. 262
By Carlyle V. Thompson
By Carlyle V. Thompson
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The Editors: Trudier Harris is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her Ph.D. in African American literature and folklore from The Ohio State University. Author and editor of more than twenty volumes, she is currently working on a book about African American writers and the South.
Jennifer Larson is concentrating on the works of Suzan-Lori Parks in her graduate studies in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She serves as the Coordinator of the Connected Learning Program at UNC's James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence.

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