| Description |
xvi, 257 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The current state of scholarship on southern women playwrights / Robert L. Mcdonald -- "Let the people sing!" : Zora Neale Hurston and the dream of a Negro theater / John Lowe -- These four : Hellman's roots are showing / Theresa R. Mooney -- Carson McCullers, Lillian Smith, and the politics of Broadway / Judith Giblin James -- The delayed entrance of Lily Mae Jenkins : queer identity, gender ambiguity, and southern ambivalence in Carson McCullers's The member of the wedding / Betty E. Mckinnie and Carlos L. Dews -- "Controversy only means disagreement" : Alice Childress' Activist drama / Donna Lisker -- Role-ing on the river : Actors Theatre of Louisville and the southern woman playwright / Elizabeth S. Bell -- Precursor and protégé : Lillian Hellman and Marsha Norman / Sally Burke -- "Un-ruling" the woman : comedy and the plays of Beth Henley and Rebecca Gilman / Janet L. Gupton -- Pseudonymy and identity politics : exploring "Jane Martin" / J. Ellen Gainor -- Dialectic and the drama of Naomi Wallace / Claudia Barnett -- Amparo Garcia and the eyes of Tejas : Texas community through Mexicana eyes / Carolyn Roark -- Reconfiguring history : migration, memory, and (re)membering in Suzan-Lori Parks's plays / Elizabeth Brown-Guillory -- The memory palace in Paula Vogel's plays / Alan Shepard and Mary Lamb -- Postmodern monologues in Regina Porter's tripping through the Car house / Mary Resing -- Southern women playwrights and the Atlanta hub : home is the place where you go / Linda Rohrer Paige. |
| Subject |
American drama -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
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American drama. |
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Southern States. |
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Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women and literature. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
American drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American drama -- Women authors. |
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American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
McDonald, Robert L., 1964-
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Paige, Linda Rohrer, 1948-
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| ISBN |
0817310800 paper alkaline paper |
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0817310797 cloth alkaline paper |
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