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Publisher
Distributed to the book trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Two plays expanding on Hawthorne's classic novel "The scarlet letter."
In the blood: Hester La Negrita, an unapologetic mother of five illegitimate children, practices writing the alphabet to help herself "one day get a leg up."
Fucking A: Hester Smith works the only job available to her, as an abortionist to the lower class, in order to save for a reunion picnic with her imprisoned son.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
First published in 1975, Shange's choreopoem has been read and performed because it truly revealed what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. Here is the complete text, with stage directions of the dramatic prose poem that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.
3) Les blancs
Author
Series
Publisher
Samuel French
Pub. Date
1972
Language
English
Description
"Best American play of 1970, Les Blancs confronts the hope and tragedy of Africa in revolution. The setting is a white Christian mission in a colony about to explode. The time is that hour of reckoning when no one the guilty nor the innocent can evade the consequences of white colonialism and imperatives of black liberation. Tshembe Matoseh, the English educated son of a chief, has come home to bury his father. He finds his teenage brother a near...
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