For those whose familiarity with black women playwrights is limited
to the works of Lorraine Hansberry and Ntozake Shange, this
collection of 15 plays written between 1925 and 1985 by eight
authors will be a revelation. They express a passionate longing for
social justice and for a stable, nurturing relationship between
black men and women. Introductions for each author provide
biographical information and critical analyses. A useful
bibliography of plays and secondary sources is also included. This
anthology helps to fill a serious gap in the standard histories of
American drama. Library Journal Wines in the Wilderness brings
together thirteen plays by black women from the 1920s to the
present, including works by Marita Bonner, Georgia Douglas Johnson,
Eulalie Spence, May Miller, Shirley Graham, Alice Childress, Sonia
Sanchez, Sybil Kein, and Elizabeth Brown-Guillory. The plays and
dramatists selected are representative of and have made
considerable contributions to African American theater. Although
the works of these playwrights span over sixty years, they are
closely linked by the theme of women struggling to define their
roles in society. The heroines speak out against interracial and
intraracial biases, stereotyping, lynch mobs, illiteracy, poverty,
promiscuity, self-righteousness, abusive men, rape, and
miscegenation. Each play is preceded by a critical introduction
that includes biographical information, an assessment of the
playwright's contributions to black theater, and a synopsis and
critical analysis of the play. The bibliography that follows the
plays provides selected lists of published plays, produced plays,
and anthologies. An index completes the work. This collection
represents an effort to make available plays written by black women
that have not been published or are now out of print. In recovering
these plays, scholars will now be able to take a close look at the
contributions that black women dramatists have made not only to
African American theater, but to American theater in general.
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