COLUMBIA
NEGRO PLAYWRIGHTS IN THE
AMERICAN THEATRE, 1925-1959
Doris E. Abramson
Between 1925 and 1959 only eighteen plays by fifteen Negro playwrighla
were produced in the New York professional theatre. This book is the first at.
tempt to place those playwrights in a social and artistic context in order
to
observe their continuing social concerns and their artistic development as
writen.
Miss Abramson discusses plays by William Wells Brown, Joseph Cotter,
Gar–
land Anderson, Wallace Thurman, Frank Wilson, Rudolph Fisher, Langston
HU&,hes, Hall Johnson, Abram
Hill,
Theodore Browne, Theodore Ward, Richard
Wright, William Branch, Alice Childress, Loften Mitchell, and Louis Peterson.
In an epilogue the author briefly discusses the recent work of Black playwrights
who are finding through the Negro revolution of the 1960s their own identity
and their own drama.
THE MANYOSHU
The Nippon 'Gakujutsu Shinkokai Translation of
One Thousand Poems with a new Foreword by
Donald Keene
$12.50 cloth
$
2.95 paper
This edition of the Manyoshu, contains 1,000 poems from the Pre-Omi,
Dmi, Asuka, Fujiwara, and Nara periods. The poets represent every level
of
society, from emperors, empresses, and court personnel to soldiers and peasants.
Besides the translations, the cloth bound edition also includes the Romaji
texts. Both editions include an introduction which provides the historical
and
social background of the poems, biographical notes on the
poets,
a chronological
table, and a finding list. There are five maps (four in the paperbound edition)
and a frontispiece which reproduces a page from the Katsura manuscript of the
Manyoshu.
BRITISH AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN THE
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Paul Delany
Cloth $12.50
Paper
$
4.95
In the seventeenth century there was no literary genre or term to describe
the many kinds of autobiographical writings that appeared. This hook ltudies
nearly two hundred published and unpublished works, and views them in the
context of their culture, literature, and society. The author considers these
writings a valuable source of information of their time, and he also analyzes
them critically as literary works.
