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Chapter 11 - Women Playwrights Who Cross Cultural Borders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2023

By
Sandra G. Shannon
Edited by
Harvey Young
Harvey Young
Affiliation:
Boston University
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Sandra G. Shannon celebrates Lynn Nottage, Adrienne Kennedy, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, and Shirley Graham Du Bois for their ability “to expand their worldview beyond the United States’ borders and to inspire, through their dramas, an emotional affinity with the sufferings of people from cultures other than their own.” She bridges these theatrical innovators both by highlighting their interest in Africa and by demonstrating how they were able to employ the theatre to comment upon world politics and with the intent of effecting social change.

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Lynn NottageAlice ChildressShirley Graham Du BoisLorraine Hansberry
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The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre , pp. 217 - 231
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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