Table of Contents:
  • Critical introduction
  • Other scribbling women : African American female dramatists / Carol P. Marsh-Lockett
  • Remaking the minstrel : Pauline Hopkins's Peculiar Sam and the post-reconstruction black subject / Martha Patterson
  • Before the strength, the pain : portraits of elderly black women in early twentieth-century anti-lynching plays / Trudier Harris
  • Segregated sisterhood : anger, racism, and feminism in Alice Childress's Florence and Wedding band / LaVinia Delois Jennings
  • "Sicker than a rabid dog" : African American women playwrights look at war / Marilyn Elkins
  • Mara, Angelina Grimke's other play and the problems of recovering texts / Christine R. Gray
  • Black male subjectivity deferred? The quest for voice and authority in Lorraine Hansberry's A raisin in the sun / Keith Clark
  • The desire/authority nexus in contemporary African American women's drama / Lovalerie King
  • Celebrating the (extra)ordinary : Alice Childress's representation of black selfhood / E. Barnsley Brown
  • The discourse of intercourse : sexuality and eroticism in African American women's drama / Janice Lee Liddell
  • The nightmare of history : conceptions of sexuality in Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro / Carla J. McDonough
  • "Filled with the Holy Ghost" : sexual dimension and dimensions of sexuality in the theater of Ntozake Shange / Neal A. Lester.