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ERIC Number: EJ378385
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1987
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Black Women Playwrights: Exorcising Myths.
Brown-Guillory, Elizabeth
Phylon, v48 n3 p229-39 Fall 1987
Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, and Ntozake Shange have in their plays created images of blacks that dispel the myths of "the contented slave,""the exotic primitive," and "the spiritual singing, toe-tapping, faithful servant." (BJV)
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black History, Black Literature, Black Stereotypes, Drama, Females, Literary Devices, Literary History, North American Literature, Playwriting, Racial Attitudes, Rhetorical Criticism, Social Attitudes
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Language: English
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