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Title:

Afro-American writers after 1955 : dramatists and prose writers / edited by Thadious M. Davis and Trudier Harris.

Publisher:

Gale Research Co.,

Copyright Date:

c1985

Description:

xv, 390 p. : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.

Subject:

African American authors--Dictionaries.--Dictionaries.
American literature--20th century--Dictionaries.--Dictionaries.
American literature--African American authors--Dictionaries.--Dictionaries.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century--Dictionaries.
American literature--African American authors--Dictionaries.
Authors, American--20th century--Dictionaries.--Dictionaries.
American literature--20th century--Dictionaries.
Écrivains noirs américains--Dictionnaires anglais.--Dictionnaires anglais.
Écrivains américains--20e siècle--Dictionnaires anglais.--Dictionnaires anglais.
Littérature américaine--20e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine--Auteurs noirs américains--Biobibliographie.
Littérature américaine--Histoire et critique.--Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine--20e siècle--Biobibliographie.
Prozaschrijvers.
Toneelschrijvers.
Amerikaans.
Negers.

Other Authors:

Davis, Thadious M., 1944-
Harris, Trudier.

Notes:

"A Bruccoli Clark book." Ports. on lining papers. Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents:

Maya Angelou -- Toni Cade Bambara -- Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) -- Ed Bullins -- Ben Caldwell -- Alice Childress -- Ossie Davis -- Tom Dent -- Alexis Deveaux -- Lonne Elder III -- Charles H. Fuller, Jr. -- Bill Gunn -- Alex Haley -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Paul Charter Harrison -- Calvin C. Hernton -- June Jordan -- Adrienne Kennedy -- Woodie King, Jr. -- William Wellington Mackey -- Marvin X (Marvin E. Jackmon, Nazzam Al Fitnah Muhajir, El Muhajir) -- James Alan McPherson -- Arthenia J. Bates Millican -- Ron Milner -- Loften Mitchell -- Albert L. Murray -- Larry Neal -- Kalamu ya Salaam (Vallery Ferdinand III) -- Ntozake Shange -- Ted Shine -- Joseph A. Walker -- Douglas Turner Ward -- Richard Wesley -- Edgar B. White -- Samm-Art Williams.
Appendix. The Black arts movement -- Community and commentators : Black theatre and its critics -- A look at the contemporary Black theatre movement -- A slender thread of hope : the Kennedy Center Black Theatre Project -- Black theaters and theater organizations in America, 1961-1982 : a research list.

Series:

Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 38

ISBN:

9780810317161
0810317168

LCCN:

85001673

Locations:

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)