The Theater of Black Americans

Description:

Critical essays on the history, impact and future of the black theater movement in the United States. Volume one traces its historical origins from its African and American roots and studies important black plays and individual playwrights from the Harlem Renaissance down to Ed Bullins. Volume two examines black theater companies and raises some of the moral and aesthetic questions they pose for audiences and critics, black and white. The contributors include Darwin T. Turner, Lindsay Patterson and Stanley Kauffman.

subjects: African Americans in literature,  African American authors,  Intellectual life,  African American theater,  History and criticism,  African Americans,  American drama,  Afro-American theater,  American drama, african american authors, history and criticism,  History