Staging Faith: Religion and African American Theater from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II
- ISBN-10
- 0814708080
- ISBN-13
- 9780814708088
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 219
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Author
- Craig R. Prentiss
Description
Illuminates the creative strategies playwrights used to grapple with religion.
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- 2013-10-25
- 233 pages
- Paperback
- NYU Press
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- 2001
- 284 pages
- Ebook
- Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
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