The Theatre of Black Americans: A Collection of Critical Essays

The Theatre of Black Americans: A Collection of Critical Essays
Errol Hill (Editor)
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(Applause Books). From the origins of the Negro spiritual and the birth of the Harlem Renaissance to the emergence of a national black theatre movement, The Theatre of Black Americans offers a penetrating look at a black art form that has exploded into an American cultural institution. Among the essays: James Hatch Some African Influences on the Afro-American Theatre; Shelby Steele Notes on Ritual in the New Black Theatre; Sister M. Francesca Thompson OSF The Lafayette Players; Ronald Ross The Role of Blacks in the Federal Theatre.

• Rank: #419616 in Books
• Brand: Applause
• Published on: 2000-04-01
• Released on: 2000-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.27" h x .91" w x 5.31" l, .85 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 372 pages

• Published by Applause Books 384 Pages
• A Collection of Critical Essays edited by Errol Hill
• Editor: Errol Hill

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In 1982, one year after graduating from Brooklyn College, Gloria Naylor (b. 1950) made her debut on the literary scene with The Women of Brewster Place. The novel was critically acclaimed, filmed as a made-for-television movie, and turned into a television miniseries. Naylor's output now includes five novels, an edited collection of short stories, two theater projects, and a series of articles, essays, notes, and an unpublished work that combines fiction and nonfiction. Conversations with Gloria Naylor collects her interviews and shows her to be one of the most talented novelists to emerge in the past twenty years. The fourteen interviews that are included range from 1983, soon after the publication of her first novel, to 2000, following the publication of The Men of Brewster Place. Altogether they shed light on Naylor in all her wit, wisdom, and candor. She is the first among the current generation of African American women novelists to have made a study of her literary predecessors.

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Applause Books | 2000 | 384 pages | ISBN-13: 9780936839271 | ISBN-10: 0936839279 | You save 5%