The pain of America’s racial legacy has been richly addressed in the nation’s literature, often by women who have gone largely unrecognized. This critical and gender-focused text scrutinizes the role of lynching dramas and social protest plays produced by African-American women. Writers covered include Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Angelina Weld Grimké, Mary Powell Burrill, and Myrtle Smith Livingston. The work also analyses the social protest plays of modern and contemporary dramatists Alice Childress, Sandra Seaton, Endesha Ida Mae Holland and Michon Boston. Of particular interest are the roles of black maternity and the pervasiveness of violence against black women in both the early and the later plays.
Author(s): Patricia A. Young
Edition: ebook
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc.
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 200
City: Jefferson, NC; London
Cover
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Early African American Women Confront Lynching
2. Life Stories
Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson
Angelina Weld Grimké
Mary Powell Burrill
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Myrtle Smith Livingston
Alice Herndon Childress
Sandra Cecelia Browne Seaton
Endesha Ida Mae Holland
Michon Boston
3. The Plays
Lynching Dramas
Miscegenation Dramas
Judicial System Dramas
Ida B. Wells Dramas
Patriotic Dramas
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index