Moon Marked and Touched by the Sun: Plays by African American Women
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Title
Moon Marked and Touched by the Sun: Plays by African American Women
This edition
"Moon Marked and Touched by the Sun: Plays by African American Women" . Ed. Sydné Mahone. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1994. xxxiii+406 pp.
Table of contents
White chocolate for my father /; Laurie Carlos --; Cage rhythm /; Kia Corthron --; X /; Thulani Davis --; WOMBmanWARs /; Judith Alexa Jackson --; The dramatic circle /; Adrienne Kennedy --; Sally's rape /; Robbie McCauley --; The death of the last black man in the whole entire world /; Suzan-Lori Parks --; The mojo and the sayso /; Aishah Rahman --; From The resurrection of the daughter /; Ntozake Shange --; From Fires in the mirror /; Anna Deveare Smith --; From Live and in color! /; Danitra Vance.
Reviews and notices of anthology
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Commentary on anthology
• "Of the eight plays and two excerpts from plays in this collection, seven are from the present decade [1990-94] and only three from the 1980s (1986, 1989, 1989). In addition to established playwrights like Adrienne Kennedy and Ntozake Shange, Mahone presents such exciting newcomers as Kia Carthron, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Danitra Vance. In addition to a general introduction, Mahone provides detailed introductory material for each selection, including an interview with each playwright based on a uniform set of questions. Although no woman playwright has as yet reached the level of Morrison in fiction or Dove in poetry, talent is abundant and the future is promising" (Kinnamon 1997: 477).
Cited in
Kinnamon 1997: 477]
Item Number
A0288