Documents the scholarship of 10 black American women playwrights, representing the Harlem Renaissance and the period between the 1950s and the 1970s. Chapters on playwrights including Marita Bonner, Z
From a March 1992 conference at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, 17 essays examine the life, work, and legacy of African-American writer and activist Hughes (1902-67). Many of the contributors knew