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Author Forsgren, La Donna L., author.

Title In Search of Our Warrior Mothers : Women Dramatists of the Black Arts Movement / La Donna L. Forsgren.

Publication Info. Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "Set your blackness free" : Barbara Ann Teer's art and activism -- "We black women" : Martie Evans-Charles and the spirits of Black womanhood -- "Armed prophet" : Sonia Sanchez and the weapon of words -- "Bring your wounded hearts" : J.E. Franklin and the art of liberation -- Epilogue. Let the search continue -- Appendix A. Chronology of Barbara Ann Teer -- Appendix B. Chronology of Martie Evans-Charles -- Appendix C. Chronology of Sonia Sanchez -- Appendix D. Chronology of J.E. Franklin.
Summary The Black Arts Movement (1965-76) consisted of artists across the United States deeply concerned with the relationship between politics and the black aesthetic. In Search of Our Warrior Mothers examines the ways in which black women playwrights in the movement advanced feminist and womanist perspectives from within black nationalist discourses. La Donna L. Forsgren recuperates the careers, artistic theories, and dramatic contributions of four leading playwrights: Martie Evans-Charles, J.e. Franklin, Sonia Sanchez, and Barbara Ann Teer. Using original interviews, production recordings, playbills, and unpublished manuscripts, she investigates how these women, despite operating within a context that equated the collective well-being of black people with black male agency, created works that validated black women's aspirations for autonomy and explored women's roles in the struggle for black liberation. In Search of Our Warrior Mothers demonstrates the powerful contributions of women to the creation, interpretation, and dissemination of black aesthetic theory, thus opening an interdisciplinary conversation at the intersections of theater, performance, feminist, and African American studies and identifying and critiquing the gaps and silences within these fields. -- Cover page 4.
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Subject Franklin, J. E. (Jennie Elizabeth), 1937- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Franklin, J. E. (Jennie Elizabeth), 1937-
Criticism and interpretation.
Sanchez, Sonia, 1934- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Sanchez, Sonia, 1934-
Charles, Martie -- Criticism and interpretation.
Charles, Martie.
Teer, Barbara Ann -- Criticism and interpretation.
Teer, Barbara Ann.
Feminist theater.
Feminist theater.
Black Arts movement.
Black Arts movement.
American drama -- Women authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American drama -- Women authors.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject American drama -- African American authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American drama -- African American authors.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Forsgren, La Donna. In Search of Our Warrior Mothers : Women Dramatists of the Black Arts Movement. Chicago : Northwestern University Press, ©2018 9780810136946
ISBN 9780810136953 (electronic book)
0810136953 (electronic book)
9780810136939 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780810136946 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0810136945