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Black comedy, nine plays : a critical anthology with interviews and essays, edited by Pamela Faith Jackson and Karimah

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Black comedy, nine plays : a critical anthology with interviews and essays, edited by Pamela Faith Jackson and Karimah
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references
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illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Black comedy
Nature of contents
bibliography
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36470292
Responsibility statement
edited by Pamela Faith Jackson and Karimah
Sub title
nine plays : a critical anthology with interviews and essays
Summary
The humor of African-American life is inextricably tied to the humor on the African-American stage, its character shaped by the contradictions of being Black and Bewildered and Bothered in the New World. It is a humor that breathes sanity and humanity in the midst of profound circumstances. To find logic in this existence is at the heart of the African-American comic odyssey
Table Of Contents
On strivers row / Abram Hill -- Simply heavenly / Langston Hughes -- Day of absence / Douglas Turner Ward -- Five on the black hand side / Charlie Russell -- Contribution / Ted Shine -- One monkey don't stop no show / Don Evans -- The colored museum / George C. Wolfe -- Wizard of hip / Thomas W. Jones, II -- Big momma n' 'em / Phyllis Yvonne Stickney
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