

African American Life Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940, (Paperback)
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- African American Life Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940, (Paperback)
- Author: Wayne State University Press
- ISBN: 9780814325803
- Format: Paperback
- Publication Date: 1996-10-01
- Page Count: 468
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- Book formatPaperback
- Fiction/nonfictionNon-Fiction
- Pub date19961001
- Pages468
- SubgenreCultural & Ethnic Studies
- Series titleAfrican American Life
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A valuable contribution to African American literary and theatrical scholarship, this volume is a compilation of sixteen plays written during the Harlem Renaissance, brought together for the first time and set in a historical context.
This important compilation of plays brings together for the very first time:
On the Fields of France, by Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.
A Pillar of the Church, by Willis Richardson
The Yellow Peril, by George S. Schuyler
Mother Liked It, by Alvira Hazzard
Son-Boy, by Joseph S. Mitchell
The Girl from Back Home, by Ralf M. Coleman
Black Damp, by John Frederick Matheus
You Mus' Be Bo'n Ag'in, by Andrew M. Burris
Environment, by Mercedes Gilbert
Run Little Chillun, by Francis Hall Johnson
Darker Brother, by Conrad Seiler
Track Thirteen, by Shirley Graham
And by Langston Hughes: Scarlet Sister Barry; Young Black Joe; The Organizer; The Em-Fuehrer Jones.
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, this work serves as essential background for contemporary readers and is a valuable contribution to African American literary and theatrical scholarship.
- African American Life Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940, (Paperback)
- Author: Wayne State University Press
- ISBN: 9780814325803
- Format: Paperback
- Publication Date: 1996-10-01
- Page Count: 468
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