First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Documents the scholarship of 10 black American women playwrights, representing the Harlem Renaissance and the period between the 1950s and the 1970s. Chapters on playwrights including Marita Bonner, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Childress, and Ntozake Shange offer brief biographies, play lists, producti