Hagood, Taylor,  1975- <br/><br/>
Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers /  
Taylor Hagood. 
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<br/><br/>Induction : Joice Heth -- On secrecy, magic, and Black women playwrights -- The one-acts -- Exeunt : an illusion. 
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<br/><br/> "Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers seeks to rescue the plays of eight black women, Marita Bonner, Mary P. Burrill, Thelma Duncan, Shirley Graham, Zora Neale Hurston, Georgia Douglas Johnson, May Miller, and Eulalie Spence, from obscurity. This volume is the first book-length treatment to address these plays and their authors exclusively rather than as part of a discussion of other African American playwrights from different eras. It is also one of the few to carry out an extensive discussion of secrecy's role in both literary representation and social interaction. Exploring secrecy from the standpoints of poststructuralist language theory and game theory as well as dramatic performance, Taylor Hagood argues that the secret--a thing visible for its very invisibility--is a fundamental cog in the machinery of society, employed as a tool for both oppression and subversion. The many facets of secrecy have been particularly salient in African American culture, informing everything from the Underground Railroad to the subtle coding of Signifying. Most devastatingly, people on both sides of the color line are caught within a web of secrecy that is the result of centuries of distrust, doubt, and fear, a fact that is powerfully manifest not only in these one-act plays but in the reader's/spectator's interactions with them"--Publisher's description. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780814271247 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Spence, Eulalie, 1894-1981 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Miller, May, 1899-1995 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Johnson, Georgia Douglas, 1886-1966 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Hurston, Zora Neale--Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Du Bois, Shirley Graham, 1896-1977 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Duncan, Thelma Myrtle, 1902-1987 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Burrill, Mary, 1884-1946 --Criticism and interpretation.<br/>Bonner, Marita, 1898-1971 --Criticism and interpretation.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Secrecy in literature.<br/>One-act plays, American.<br/>Magic in literature.<br/>Harlem Renaissance.<br/>American drama--Women authors.<br/>American drama--African American authors.<br/>American drama.<br/>Harlem Renaissance.<br/>Harlem Renaissance.<br/>Magie dans la litterature.<br/>Secret dans la litterature.<br/>Pieces en un acte americaines--Histoire et critique.<br/>Femmes dramaturges noires americaines--20e siecle.<br/>Theātre americain--Histoire et critique.--20e siecle<br/>Theātre americain--Auteurs noirs americains--Histoire et critique.<br/>Harlem Renaissance.<br/>Magic in literature.<br/>Secrecy in literature.<br/>One-act plays, American--History and criticism.<br/>African American women dramatists--20th century.<br/>American drama--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>American drama--Women authors--History and criticism.<br/>American drama--African American authors--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Critiques litteraires.<br/>Literary criticism.<br/>Criticism, interpretation, etc.<br/>Electronic books.