Contemporary African American Female Playwrights

Catalog description

This course will trace the continuation and development of African American dramatic literature beginning with Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 groundbreaking A Raisin in the Sun, to Lynn Nottage’s 2017 Pulitzer Prize winning drama Sweat. This course is designed to accommodate students at all levels of study. As a basic reading and text analysis class we will begin our critical analysis from an Aristotelian approach to critical approaches inclusive of Cultural Theory, Feminist Theory, Performance Theory and Critical Race Theory.