The Prize Plays and Other One-Acts Published in Periodicals (AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS, 1910-1940)
During the 1920s the annual literary contests sponsored by The Crisis and Opportunity magazines provided critical professional outlets for African-American women playwrights. The works presented here (both prize-winning plays and plays that received their first publication in such organs as The Saturday Evening Quill and Carolina Magazine) cover a wide range of dramatic genres - from propaganda plays and light comedies to melodramas, folk plays, and poetic drama.
AMERICAN DRAMA (DRAMATIC WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)
RELEASED1996
PUBLISHERG K Hall
LENGTH216
LANGUAGEEN
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Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston)
The Prize Plays and Other One-Acts Published in Periodicals (AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS, 1910-1940)
by Zora Neale Hurston, Eulalie Spence, Marita Bonner
During the 1920s the annual literary contests sponsored by The Crisis and Opportunity magazines provided critical professional outlets for African-American women playwrights. The works presented here (both prize-winning plays and plays that received their first publication in such organs as The Saturday Evening Quill and Carolina Magazine) cover a wide range of dramatic genres - from propaganda plays and light comedies to melodramas, folk plays, and poetic drama.
AMERICAN DRAMA (DRAMATIC WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)
RELEASED1996
PUBLISHERG K Hall
LENGTH216
LANGUAGEEN
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston)
