Title "Color struck" under the gaze : ethnicity and the pathology of being in the plays of Johnson, Hurston, Childress, Hansberry, and Kennedy / Martha Gilman Bower.

Publication Info.	Westport, Conn. : Praeger, [2003]
	©2003

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Description	xii, 158 pages ; 25 cm.
Series	Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, 0069-9624 ; no. 208
	Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 208.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-153) and index.
Contents	"Warring" identities in the life and plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Voodoo, music, and humor : Zora Neale Hurston's antidotes for the "color struck" -- The psychological confusion and racial love/hate in the plays of Alice Childress -- "Her world divided in half" : the aborted search for self in the life and plays of Lorraine Hansberry -- Fragmentation as sanity deferred in four plays by Adrienne Kennedy.
Subject	American drama -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
	American drama -- African American authors.
	American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	American drama.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
	African Americans -- Intellectual life.
	Identity (Psychology) in literature.
	Identity (Psychology) in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	Group identity in literature.
	Group identity in literature.
	Mentally ill in literature.
	Mentally ill in literature.
	Ethnicity in literature.
	Ethnicity in literature.
	Race in literature.
	Race in literature.
	Self in literature.
	Self in literature.
ISBN	0313322287 alkaline paper