Download or read book Zora Neale Hurston, Eulalie Spence, Marita Bonner, and Others written by Jennifer Burton and published by G. K. Hall. This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved