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Wines in the Wilderness: Plays by African American Women From the Harlem Renaissance to the Present ("Florence" by Alice Childress begins on p. 110, and "Wine in the Wilderness" by Alice Childress begins on p. 122) » Read Now
by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory. 251 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

"For those whose familiarity with black women playwrights is limited to the works of Lorraine Hansberry and Ntozake Shange, this collection of 15 plays written between 1925 and 1985 by eight authors will be a revelation. They express a passionate longing for social justice and for a stable...
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"For those whose familiarity with black women playwrights is limited to the works of Lorraine Hansberry and Ntozake Shange, this collection of 15 plays written between 1925 and 1985 by eight authors will be a revelation. They express a passionate longing for social justice and for a stable, nurturing relationship between black men and women. Introductions for each author provide biographical information and critical analyses. A useful bibliography of plays and secondary sources is also included. This anthology helps to fill a serious gap in the standard histories of American drama." Library Journal
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Black American Women Poets and Dramatists (Discussion of Alice Childress begins on p. 32) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 247 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Their Place on the Stage: Black Women Playwrights in America (Chap. 2 "Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange: Carving a Place for Themselves on the American Stage") » Read Now
by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory. 168 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

"This is the first book-length study of black American women playwrights. It will be useful to scholars in the fields of black and women's literature and an excellent source of background reading in graduate and undergraduate courses on American women playwrights. The author's training as both a...
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"This is the first book-length study of black American women playwrights. It will be useful to scholars in the fields of black and women's literature and an excellent source of background reading in graduate and undergraduate courses on American women playwrights. The author's training as both a scholar and a playwright is evident in this book." Choice
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Telling the Truth: Alice Childress as Theorist and Playwright, in The Journal of African American History » Read Now
by Olga Dugan. 14 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Telling the truth: Alice Childress as theorist and playwright...Brown-Guillory declared that "Alice Childress is the only black woman in America...bookstores and not see...
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Broken Silences: Interviews With Black and White Women Writers (Interview with Alice Childress begins on p. 28) » Read Now
by Shirley M. Jordan. 328 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

By selecting articulate, amusing, impassioned, and introspective authors who have portrayed characters across race lines, Jordan focuses on commonalities, as well as important differences, in this creative process. A rare opportunity to read the private thoughts about race and creativity of Joyce...
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By selecting articulate, amusing, impassioned, and introspective authors who have portrayed characters across race lines, Jordan focuses on commonalities, as well as important differences, in this creative process. A rare opportunity to read the private thoughts about race and creativity of Joyce Carol Oates, Belva Plain, Grace Paley, Sherley Anne Williams, and others. Illustrated.
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Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama ("Re-Reading Alice Childress" begins on p. 323) » Read Now
by Marc Maufort. 398 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...301 Patricia R. Schroeder Re-Reading Alice Childress 323 Richard Wattenberg Sophie Treadwell...also deal with womens drama--as is the case with the Alice Childress...
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Women in Literature: Reading through the Lens of Gender ("The Invisible Black Female Artist in Alice Childress' Florence (1950)" begins on p. 108) » Read Now
by Jerilyn Fisher, Ellen S. Silber. 358 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This unique reference offers alternate approaches to reading traditional literature, as well as suggestions for expanding the canon to include more gender sensitive works. Covering 96 of the most frequently taught works of fiction, essays offer teachers, librarians, and students fresh insights into the female perspective in literature.
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Freedomways Reader: Prophets in Their Own Country ("The Negro Woman in American Literature, No. 1, 1966: Alice Childress, Paule Marshall, and Sarah E. Wright" begins on p. 291) » Read Now
by Esther Cooper Jackson, Constance Pohl. 382 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...American Literature, No. 1, 1966, Alice Childress, Paule Marshall, and Sarah E. Wright...57 Rock Eagle, No. 4, 1971, Alice Walker 310 58 Facing the Way, No. 4, 1975, Alice...
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Early Black Women Playwrights and the Dual Liberation Motif, in African American Review » Read Now
by Will Harris. 17 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...early "black domestic" plays is Alice Childresss Florence (1950). The progressiveness...Bonner, Shirley Graham, and Alice Childress. I should also delineate not...conclude...