ELIZABETH BROWN-GUILLORY is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston. Her award-winning plays Bayou Relics and Snapshots of Broken Dolls, which was produced at Lincoln Center in New York City in 1986, have been published by Contemporary Drama Service. Currently, she is editing an anthology, Wines in the Wilderness: Plays by African-American Women from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present (Greenwood Press, 1990).

• Foreword by Margaret Walker AlexanderBlack Theater Tradition and Women Playwrights of the Harlem RenaissanceAlice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange: Carving a Place for Themselves on the American StageTonal Form: Symbols as Shapers of "Theater of Struggle"Structural Form: African American Initiation and Survival RitualsMirroring the Dark and Beautiful Warriors: Images of BlacksThe African Continuum: The Progeny in the New WorldAfterword by Gloria T. HullSelected BibliographyIndex

ELIZABETH BROWN-GUILLORY is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston. Her award-winning plays Bayou Relics and Snapshots of Broken Dolls, which was produced at Lincoln Center in New York City in 1986, have been published by Contemporary Drama Service. Currently, she is editing an anthology, Wines in the Wilderness: Plays by African-American Women from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present (Greenwood Press, 1990).

• Foreword by Margaret Walker AlexanderBlack Theater Tradition and Women Playwrights of the Harlem RenaissanceAlice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange: Carving a Place for Themselves on the American StageTonal Form: Symbols as Shapers of "Theater of Struggle"Structural Form: African American Initiation and Survival RitualsMirroring the Dark and Beautiful Warriors: Images of BlacksThe African Continuum: The Progeny in the New WorldAfterword by Gloria T. HullSelected BibliographyIndex

ELIZABETH BROWN-GUILLORY is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston. Her award-winning plays Bayou Relics and Snapshots of Broken Dolls, which was produced at Lincoln Center in New York City in 1986, have been published by Contemporary Drama Service. Currently, she is editing an anthology, Wines in the Wilderness: Plays by African-American Women from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present (Greenwood Press, 1990).

• Foreword by Margaret Walker AlexanderBlack Theater Tradition and Women Playwrights of the Harlem RenaissanceAlice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange: Carving a Place for Themselves on the American StageTonal Form: Symbols as Shapers of "Theater of Struggle"Structural Form: African American Initiation and Survival RitualsMirroring the Dark and Beautiful Warriors: Images of BlacksThe African Continuum: The Progeny in the New WorldAfterword by Gloria T. HullSelected BibliographyIndex