Afro-American writers after 1955 : dramatists and prose writers /

Afro-American writers after 1955 : dramatists and prose writers / edited by Thadious M. Davis and Trudier Harris. - Detroit, Michigan : Gale Research Company, (c)1985. - xv, 390 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm.

"A Bruccoli Clark book." Ports. on lining papers.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



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American literature--African American authors--Dictionaries.
American literature--20th century--Bio-bibliography--Dictionaries.
American literature--20th century--Dictionaries.
Authors, American--20th century--Biography--Dictionaries.

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