Paul Green (eBook)

North Carolina Writers on the Legacy of the State's Most Celebrated Playwright

Georgann Eubanks, Margaret Bauer (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
167 Seiten
Blair (Verlag)
978-1-958888-30-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This anthology examines the life and selected works of North Carolinas most distinguished playwright of the 20thcentury, Paul Green (1894-1981).Paul Green is best known for his outdoor historical dramas, which are still performed across the United States. However, he was not only a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, but was also an activist committed to human rights, racial equity, prison reform, and ending the death penalty. This anthology includes frank reflections from an award-winning array of contemporary North Carolina writers. Their essays about Greens work and relationships are meant to launch new conversations about a man who was seen as progressive, even radical, in his time. Included writers: Margaret Bauer, Jim Grimsley, Lynden Harris, Marjorie Hudson, Kathryn Hunter-Williams, Jill McCorkle, Ray Owen, Phillip Shabazz, Mike Wiley, and others.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.8.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: betty smith • Civil Rights • Death Penalty • Harnett County • In Abraham’s Bosom • Playwrights • Pulitzer Prize • Richard Wright • The Lost Colony • Thomas Wolfe • UNC-Chapel Hill • zora neale hurston
• ISBN-10: 1-958888-30-3 / 1958888303
• ISBN-13: 978-1-958888-30-8 / 9781958888308