| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 110 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Monster -- Gimmick -- Beauty's daughter. |
| Summary |
The sheer exuberance of language that pours forth in Dael Orlandersmith's plays has dazzled critics and audiences alike. In these three pieces, the award-winning writer and performer celebrates the power of words to rescue the young black women she portrays from their constricted worlds. In the Obie Award-winning play "Beauty's Daughter," Diane yearns to free herself from her soul-deadening surroundings, where people drown their unfulfilled aspirations in drugs and alcohol. In "Monster," Theresa imagines a life in the rock-'n'-roll poetry bohemia of Manhattan's Lower East Side and away from her home in East Harlem, where she is scorned as a misfit. And in "The Gimmick," Alexis escapes her brutal reality among the library bookshelves, where she dreams of becoming a writer in Paris. Charged with fearless wisdom, these three electrifying plays transform rage-filled ghetto experience into a triumph of rhapsodic expression. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
| Access |
Concurrent user level: 1 user |
| Subject |
African American women -- Drama.
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African American women. |
| Genre/Form |
Drama.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Drama.
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| Added Author |
Orlandersmith, Dael.
Monster.
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Orlandersmith, Dael.
Gimmick.
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| Added Title |
Plays. Selections https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00039036
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Monster.
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Gimmick.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Orlandersmith, Dael. Plays. Selections. Beauty's daughter ; Monster ; The gimmick. 1st ed. New York : Vintage Books, 2000 (DLC) 00034946 (OCoLC)44270730 |
| ISBN |
9780307482051 (electronic book) |
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0307482057 (electronic book) |
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0375708715 (paperback) |
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9780375708718 (paperback) |
| Music No. |
EB00162851 Recorded Books |
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