Dramatic Movement of African American Women: The Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class

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Dramatic Movement of African American Women is a comprehensive book about the three significant African American women dramatists whose plays illustrate the debilitating effects of Racism, Sexism, and Classism on African Americans in general and African American women in particular.

The book explicates the novel ideas about the African American women who have been raped by white men, who are pregnant or abandoned by the men (both white and black), however, they launch a rebellion against the oppressive hegemonic white culture, African American patriarchy and white materialistic ideology. This book offers an exhaustive background of social, economic, political, and cultural history of African Americans in general and how social, economic, political, and cultural history of African American women is different than the white men, white women, and African American men in particular. The book also discusses how the images of African American women in American mainstream theatre and African American males theatre are different than the images of African American women in African American womens dramas.

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Dr Yuvraj Nimbaji Herode is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India.