{"product_id":"9780253113665","title":"Black Female Playwrights: An Anthology of Plays before 1950","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Fine reading and a superb resource.\" --\u003cbr\u003e Ms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Highly recommended.\" -- Library\u003cbr\u003e Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Perkins has chosen the plays well, and her issue-oriented\u003cbr\u003e introduction places the women and their works in a literary and historical context.\"\u003cbr\u003e -- Choice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As well as being centered on the black experience, the\u003cbr\u003e plays in Black Female Playwrights are centered on the female experience.\" -- Voice\u003cbr\u003e Literary Supplement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Perkins' anthology is valuable for a\u003cbr\u003e number of reasons... Perkins' book (which includes a bibliography of plays and\u003cbr\u003e pageants by black women before 1950 as well as a selected bibliography of critical\u003cbr\u003e works) is a major help in providing access to [the world of black drama].\" --\u003cbr\u003e Theatre Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe need to acknowledge these works was the\u003cbr\u003e impetus behind this volume. Perkins has selected nineteen plays from seven writers\u003cbr\u003e who were among the major dramatizers of the black experience during this early\u003cbr\u003e period. As forerunners to the activist black theater of the 1950s and 1960s, these\u003cbr\u003e plays represent a critical stage in the development of black drama in the United\u003cbr\u003e States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120431055088,"sku":"9780253113665","price":10.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780253113665","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}