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I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays de Sonia Sanchez

I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays

Autor Sonia Sanchez Editat de JACQUELINE WOOD
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2010
This collection brings together for the first time the plays of Sonia Sanchez, a prolific, award-winning poet and one of the most prominent writers in the Black Arts movement. In addition to Sanchez’s five previously published plays The Bronx Is Next (1970), Dirty Hearts (1971), Sister Son/ji (1972), Malcolm/Man Don’t Live Here No Mo (1979) Uh, Uh; But How Do It Free Us? (1975), and, the collection also includes her two unpublished plays, I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t (1982) and 2 x 2 (2009). It reveals the thematic and formal exchanges between Sanchez’s poetry and dramatic works over the course of four decades. Sanchez emerged as a black nationalist poet and playwright in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Like her poetry, her dramas reflect her critique of the racism and sexism that she encountered as a young female writer in the black militant community, her ongoing concern with the well-being of the black community, and her commitment to social justice. I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t and Other Plays includes three essays in which Sanchez reflects on her art and activism, and an introduction by Jacqueline Wood situating Sanchez’s plays in relation to her poetry, activism, and the feminist dramatic voice in black revolutionary art.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822347781
ISBN-10: 0822347784
Pagini: 143
Dimensiuni: 163 x 232 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Duke University Press

Cuprins

IntroductionPart I. Essays“Poetry Run Loose: Breaking the Rules” (2004); “Ruminations/Reflections” (1984); “Preface” to Uh, Uh; But How Do It Free Us? (1974) Part II. PlaysThe Bronx Is Next (1968) Sister Son/ji (1969)Dirty Hearts (1971)Malcolm/Man Don’t Live Here No Mo (1972)Uh, Uh; But How Do It Free Us? (1974)I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t (1982)2 X 2 (2009)Selected Bibliography

Recenzii

“Sonia Sanchez remains one of the most read, respected, and visible figures of the Black Arts movement, as well as its most significant female figures. I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t and Other Plays only adds to that legacy.”—Amiri Baraka“Whether I encounter Sonia in poetry, prose, or drama, I am always struck by the fearlessness of her intellect, the effortless musicality of her language, and her commitment to putting these gifts—always—in service of the Struggle. I rejoice for those who, through this book, will encounter Sonia for the first time.”—Ruby Dee“Poet Sonia Sanchez deserves a Nobel for her lyrical representation and advocacy of the universal black woman.”—Ed Bullins“These seven plays by Sonia Sanchez form an emotional and historic bridge from the loud revolutionary power of the 1960s and the twentieth century to the more insidious and subtle challenges of this first decade of the twenty-first. Their power lies in their ability to present super/real snapshots of their time and circumstance with the mystic clarity that mixing poetry and drama can create. From The Bronx Is Next, where Brothers prepare to burn down Harlem tenements, to 2 X 2, where Beverly and Ramona Smith find one another, Sonia’s persistent call to Blacks—and especially to women—is to find the strength to assemble our ghosts and demons, confront them, and lay them to rest. The plays are startling and open us to a Sonia Sanchez whose vision can see the world as stage, or, perhaps, stage as the world.”—Charles Fuller

Notă biografică

Sonia Sanchez is a poet, playwright, and activist living in Philadelphia. Her many books of poetry include "Shake Loose My Skin," "Does Your House Have Lions?," "Under a Soprano Sky," "Homegirls and Handgrenades," "We a BaddDDD People," and "Homecoming." She is the recipient of numerous honors recognizing her writing and activism, among them a PEN Writers' Award and an American Book Award, as well as the Community Service Award from the National Black Caucus of State Legislators and the Peace and Freedom Award from the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.Jacqueline Wood is Associate Professor of African American Literature and the Interim Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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"These seven plays by Sonia Sanchez form an emotional and historic bridge from the loud revolutionary power of the 1960s and the twentieth century to the more insidious and subtle challenges of this first decade of the twenty-first. Their power lies in their ability to present super/real snapshots of their time and circumstance with the mystic clarity that mixing poetry and drama can create. From "The Bronx Is Next," where Brothers prepare to burn down Harlem tenements, to "2 X 2," where Beverly and Ramona Smith find one another, Sonia's persistent call to Blacks--and especially to women--is to find the strength to assemble our ghosts and demons, confront them, and lay them to rest. The plays are startling and open us to a Sonia Sanchez whose vision can see the world as stage, or, perhaps, stage as the world."--Charles Fuller

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"These seven plays by Sanchez form an emotional and historic bridge from the loud revolutionary power of the 1960s and the 20th century to the more insidious and subtle challenges of this first decade of the 21st."--Charles Fuller.