Wines in the Wilderness ─ Plays by African American Women from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present

"For those whose familiarity with black women playwrights is limited to the works of Lorraine Hansbury and Ntozake Shange, this collection of 15 plays written between 1925 and 1985 by eight authors will be a revelation. They express a passionate longing for social justice and for a stable, nurturing relationship between black men and women. . . . This anthology helps to fill a serious gap in the standard histories of American drama and should be purchased by most black studies and theater collections." Library Journal

ELIZABETH BROWN-GUILLORY is Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston. Both playwright and literary critic, she is the author of two plays,Bayou Relics and Snapshots of Broken Dolls, the latter produced at Lincoln Center in 1986, and the critical book,Their Place on the Stage: Black Women Playwrights in America (Greenwood Press, 1988). She has published a host of articles and book reviews inPhylon, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women,Xavier Review, The Griot, Masterplots, Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, andAmerican Literature. Currently she is working on a critical book on playwright and novelist Alice Childress.