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.