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- DescriptionThroughout her meteoric rise into the upper ranks of young playwrights, Lydia R. Diamond has boldly challenged assumptions about African American culture. In Harriet Jacobs, she turns one of the greatest of American slave narratives, Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, into a penetrating, rousing work of theater. .
- Author BiographyLydia R. Diamond is a Huntington Playwriting Fellow and a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists. Harriet Jacobs premiered at Steppenwolf and was developedand presented at The Kennedy Center s New Visions New Voices festival. Her other plays include Stage Black, The Gift Horse, Stick Fly, Voyeurs de Venus, and The Inside, which was published in TriQuarterly. A multiple nominee for Joseph Jefferson and Black Theater Alliance awards, Diamond s adaptation of Toni Morrison s The Bluest Eye won the Black Arts Alliance Image Award for Best New Play. Northwestern University Press previously published Stick Fly (2008), and The Gift Horse is anthologized in Northwestern s 7 Black Plays The Theodore Ward Prize for African American Playwriting (2004). A graduate of Northwestern University, Diamond has taught playwriting at Columbia College Chicago, DePaul University, Loyola University, and Boston University.
- Author(s)Lydia R. Diamond
- PublisherNorthwestern University Press
- Date of Publication19/05/2011
- GenreDrama Texts, Plays & Screenplays
- Place of PublicationEvanston
- Country of PublicationUnited States
- ImprintNorthwestern University Press
- Weight188 g
- Width152 mm
- Height229 mm
- Foreword byJean Fagan Yel,Megan Sandberg-Zaki
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