Contemporary Black drama; from "A raisin in the sun" to "No place to be somebody."

by Clinton F. Oliver

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A collection of plays written during the sixties by Ossie Davis, Adrienne Kennedy, LeRoi Jones, James Baldwin, Ed Bullins and other black dramatists

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DDC/MDS: 812.5 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American drama in English 20th Century
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Contemporary Black drama; from "A raisin in the sun" to "No place to be somebody."

by Clinton F. Oliver

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