In the last 50 years, American and World theatre have been challenged and enriched by the rise to prominence of numerous female African American dramatists. Con

This collection of critical essays on plays by African American female playwrights from the post-reconstruction period to the present provides thematic analyses

African American women writers published extensively during the Harlem Renaissance and have been extraordinarily prolific since the 1970s. This book surveys the

This is the first anthology to focus exclusively on the lives of Black South African women. This collection represents the work of both female and male writers,

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 exce