Title Peculiar passages : black women playwrights, 1875 to 2000 / Carol Dawn Allen.

Publication Info.	New York : Peter Lang, [2005]
	©2005

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PS338.B53 A425 2005	Available	---

Description	295 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-282) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- Peculiar Juno : staging Black female pleasure -- Bridging the modern : neurotic sentimentality encounters racial uplift in Angelina Weld Grimké's Rachel -- Houses against violence : early-twentieth-century Black women playwrights -- When saints build frames : sacred/secular musical pageantry in Alice Childress's plays -- Sailing/sealing over ravines : process as constant in the work of Adrienne Kennedy -- Dipped in the pool : Shange's choreopoems as Atlantic crossings.
Subject	American drama -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
	American drama -- African American authors.
	Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Women and literature.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	American drama.
	American drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	African American women -- Intellectual life.
	African American women -- Intellectual life.
	African American women.
	African American women in literature.
	African American women in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	Toneelschrijvers.
	Vrouwelijke auteurs.
	Negers.
	Amerikaans.
ISBN	0820476196 paperback alkaline paper
	082047620X hardback alkaline paper