| Description |
1 online resource (467 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
African American life series
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African American life series.
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| Summary |
This compilation of sixteen plays written during the Harlem Renaissance brings together for the first time the works of Langston Hughes, George S. Schuyler, Francis Hall Johnson, Shirley Graham, and others. In the introduction, James V. Hatch sets the plays in a historical context as he describes the challenges presented to artists by the political and social climate of the time. The topics of the plays cover the realm of the human experience in styles as wide-ranging as poetry, farce, comedy, tragedy, social realism, and romance. Individual introductions to each play provide essential biographical background on the playwrights. In the continuing rediscovery of writers and works from the Harlem Renaissance, Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940, serves as essential background for contemporary readers and is a valuable contribution to African American literary and theatrical scholarship. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
On the fields of France / Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. -- A pillar of the church / Willis Richardson -- Yellow peril / George S. Schuyler -- Mother liked it / Alvira Hazzard -- Son-boy / Joseph S. Mitchell -- Girl from back home / Ralf M. Coleman -- Black damp / John Frederick Matheus -- You mus' be bo'n ag'in / Andrew M. Burris -- Environment / Mercedes Gilbert -- Run little chillun / Francis Hall Johnson -- Darker brother / Conrad Seiler -- Scarlet sister Barry ; Young black Joe ; Organizer ; Em-Fuehrer Jones / Langston Hughes -- Track thirteen / Shirley Graham. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American drama -- African American authors.
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American drama -- African American authors. |
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American drama -- 20th century.
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American drama. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Drama.
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African Americans. |
| Genre/Form |
Drama.
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| Subject |
Harlem Renaissance.
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Harlem Renaissance. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Drama.
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| Added Author |
Hatch, James V. (James Vernon), 1928-2020, editor.
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Hamalian, Leo, 1920-2003, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lost plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940. Detroit : Wayne State University Press, ©1996 0814325807 (DLC) 96029052 (OCoLC)35029666 |
| ISBN |
9780814338339 (electronic book) |
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081433833X (electronic book) |
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9780814325803 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0814325807 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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