This novel talks about the experience of newcomers in America. How certain individual attempted to take advantage of those two young African ladies, men and women alike. The young ladies underwent one challenge after another, prior to gaining their victory.
Three Plays by Zora Neale Hurston brings together three short theatrical works-Lawing and Jawing, Forty Yards, and Woofing-that showcase her sharp ear for dialogue, humor, and the rhythms of everyday African American speech. Rooted in Black folk culture and community...
Poker! by Zora Neale Hurston is a lively short play that captures the energy, wit, and social dynamics of African American community life. Centered around a poker game, the drama unfolds through sharp dialogue, humor, and conflict, revealing themes of...
De Turkey and De Law by Zora Neale Hurston is a spirited comedy that blends humor, folk wisdom, and sharp social observation. Set within an African American community, the play uses courtroom antics and everyday conflicts to explore themes of...
This book analyses Black Consciousness poetry and theatre from the 1970s through to the present. South Africa’s literature, like its history, has been beset by disagreement and contradiction, and has been consistently difficult to pin down as one, united entity....
Black and White Bioscope recovers a neglected chapter in the histories of world cinema and Africa. It tells the story of movie production in Africa that long predated francophone African films and Nollywood that are the focus of most histories of...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other...
In this original and provocative study of contemporary African film and literature, Vlad Dima investigates the way that football and cinema express individual and collective fantasies, and highlights where football and cinema converge and diverge with regard to neocolonial fantasies....