The Roots of African American drama
The Roots of African American drama: an anthology of early plays, 1858-1938
edited by Leo Hamalian and James V. Hatch; foreword by George C. Wolfe
Publisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c1991.
ISBN: 0814321410
LCC: PS628
Edition: (alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-454).
Introduction: Two hundred years of black and white drama / James V.
Hatch -- The Escape: or, A Leap for Freedom (1858) / William Wells
Brown -- Peculiar Sam, or The Underground Railroad (1879) / Pauline
Elizabeth Hopkins -- Aunt Betsy's Thanksgiving (c.1914) / Katherine
D. Chapman Tillman -- Aftermath (1919) / Mary Burrill -- Black
Vaudeville (c.1920) / Butterbeans and Susie (Jodie and Susie Edwards)
-- The Chip Woman's Fortune (1923) / Willis Richardson -- The First
One (1927) / Zora Neale Hurston -- Help Wanted (1929) / Joseph S.
Mitchell -- Tom-Tom (1932) / Shirley Graham -- The Sharecropper
(1932) / George A. Towns -- Nails and Thorns (1933) / May Miller --
The Shining Town (1937) / Owen Vincent Dodson -- On Strivers Row
(1938) / Abram Hill.
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