Contemporary Black Drama: From "A Raisin in the Sun" to "No Place to Be Somebody"
Item
Title
Contemporary Black Drama: From "A Raisin in the Sun" to "No Place to Be Somebody"
This edition
"Contemporary Black Drama: From "A Raisin in the Sun" to "No Place to Be Somebody"" . Ed. Clinton Oliver and Stephanie Sills. New York: Scribner's, 1971. xii+451 pp.
Table of contents
● Clinton F. Oliver / An Introductory Essay: The Negro and the American Theater
● Lorraine Hansberry / A Raisin in the Sun
● Ossie Davis / Purlie Victorious
● Adrienne Kennedy / Funnyhouse of a Negro
● LeRoi Jones / Dutchman
● James Baldwin / Blues for Mister Charlie
● Douglas Turner Ward / Happy Ending, and Day of Absence
● Ed Bullins / The Gentleman Caller
● Charles Gordone / No Place to Be Somebody
● Lorraine Hansberry / A Raisin in the Sun
● Ossie Davis / Purlie Victorious
● Adrienne Kennedy / Funnyhouse of a Negro
● LeRoi Jones / Dutchman
● James Baldwin / Blues for Mister Charlie
● Douglas Turner Ward / Happy Ending, and Day of Absence
● Ed Bullins / The Gentleman Caller
● Charles Gordone / No Place to Be Somebody
Reviews and notices of anthology
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Commentary on anthology
• "The introductory essay (pp. 3-25) to this anthology of nine [sic, actually eight] black plays discusses and mentions numerous plays about blacks by black and white playwrights. Also preceding each play is a bio-bibliographical sketch of each playwright" (Rowell 1972: 64).
Cited in
Hatch 1991: 189] [Kinnamon 1997: 475]
Item Number
A0157