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  • Chapter 6 - Black Women Dramatists, 1930–1960

  • Edited by Harvey Young, Boston University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre
    Published online:
    08 June 2023
    Print publication:
    22 June 2023, pp 119-137

  • Summary

    Adrienne Macki challenges critics who assert that the plays of Eulalie Spence, Alice Childress, and Lorraine Hansberry were either apolitical or not sufficiently political. In her chapter, Macki reintroduces the playwrights, who were active between 1930 and 1960, and chronicles the vital roles that they played in opening the doors for Black women to have their work staged regionally as well as on Broadway. Furthermore, she makes a convincing case that their plays feature “self-actualized black characters fighting against oppression and consumption while struggling to maintain racial and gender subjectivity.”