"Perkins has chosen the plays well, and her issue-oriented introduction places the women and their works in a literary and historical context." --Choice
"As well as being centered on the black experience, the plays in Black Female Playwrights are centered on the female experience." --Voice Literary Supplement
"Perkins' anthology is valuable for a number of reasons... Perkins' book (which includes a bibliography of plays and pageants by black women before 1950 as well as a selected...
"Fine reading and a superb resource." --Ms.
"Highly recommended." --Library Journal
"Perkins has chosen the plays well, and her issue-o...
"These lynching dramas may not present the picture that America wants to see of itself, but these visions cannot be ignored because they are grounded not only in the truth of white racism's toxic effect on our national existence but also in the truth that there exists a contesting, collective response that is part of an on-going and continually building momentum." Theaatre Journal
"A unique, powerful collection worthy of high school and college classroom assignment and discussion." Bookwatch
This anthology is the first to address the impact of lynching on U.S. theater and...
"These lynching dramas may not present the picture that America wants to see of itself, but these visions cannot be ignored because they are ground...
This anthology focuses exclusively on the lives of Black South African women. It represents the work of national and international award-winning authors such as Geina Mhlope, Fatima Dike, Duma Ndlovu, Swindiwe Magona and Maishe Maponya, alongside the work of notable emerging writers including Lueen Conning, Ismail Mahomed, Thulani Mtshali, Muthal Naidoo and Magi Williams. The collection includes six full-length and four one-act plays, as well as interviews with the playwrights, who candidly discuss the theatrical and political situation in the new South Africa. It represents an array of men...
This anthology focuses exclusively on the lives of Black South African women. It represents the work of national and international award-winning autho...
This anthology consists of nine plays by a diverse group of women from throughout the African continent. The plays focus on a wide range of issues, such as cultural differences, AIDS, female circumcision, women's rights to higher education, racial and skin color identity, prostitution as a form of survival for young girls, and nonconformist women resisting old traditions. In addition to the plays themselves, this collection includes commentaries by the playwrights on their own plays, and editor Kathy A. Perkins provides additional commentary and a bibliography of published and unpublished...
This anthology consists of nine plays by a diverse group of women from throughout the African continent. The plays focus on a wide range of issues,...
As the first African American woman to have a play professionally produced in New York City (Gold Through the Trees, in 1952) and the first woman to win an Obie for Best Play (for Trouble in Mind, in 1956), Alice Childress occupies an important but surprisingly under-recognized place in American drama. She herself rejected an emphasis on the pioneering aspects of her career, saying that it s almost like it s an honor rather than a disgrace and that she should be the fiftieth and the thousandth by this point a remark that suggests the complexity and singularity of vision to be found in her...
As the first African American woman to have a play professionally produced in New York City (Gold Through the Trees, in 1952) and the first woman to w...
