Books in the Critical Studies in Black Life and Culture series

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Childress, and Ntozake Shange offer brief biographies, play lists, product

This collection of contemporary criticism explores the author's concern with racial and gender issues and analyses her relation to other major modern authors.

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 him personally. They discuss his pre-eminent role in the Harlem Renaissance; issues of race, cultu