
cover sculptures by Virginia Cox
“…there are only a very few dramatists who come
immediately to mind when thinking about the major contemporary African-American
playwrights: Lorraine Hansberry, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Adrienne Kennedy,
August Wilson, Ntozake Shange, and Aishah Rahman. Although she has not had the
general name recognition of her contemporaries, Aishah Rahman has been widely
celebrated for the craft, language, and vision of her plays. Her daring,
innovative fusion of form and function has positioned her in the forefront of
American women writing for the theater, and in the forefront of those
playwrights who expand the limits, refuse the boundaries, and seek new
territories in the formal and stylistic properties of drama as a genre and the
theater as a medium."
Thadious M Davis, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English,
Vanderbilt University
3 M, 4 F
I S B N 978-0-88145-472-7
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