{"product_id":"im-black-when-im-singing-im-blue-when-i-aint-and-other-plays-paperback","title":"I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSonia Sanchez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonia Sanchez is a prolific, award-winning poet and one of the most prominent writers in the Black Arts movement. This collection brings her plays together in one volume for the first time. Like her poetry, Sanchez's plays voice her critique of the racism and sexism that she encountered as a young female writer in the black militant community in the late 1960s and early 1970s, her ongoing concern with the well-being of the black community, and her commitment to social justice. In addition to \u003ci\u003eThe Bronx Is Next\u003c\/i\u003e (1968), \u003ci\u003eSister Son\/ji\u003c\/i\u003e (1969), \u003ci\u003eDirty Hearts\u003c\/i\u003e (1971), \u003ci\u003eMalcolm\/Man Don't Live Here No Mo\u003c\/i\u003e (1972), and \u003ci\u003eUh, Uh; But How Do It Free Us?\u003c\/i\u003e (1974), this collection includes the never-before-published dramas \u003ci\u003eI'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't\u003c\/i\u003e (1982) and \u003ci\u003e2 X 2\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), as well as three essays in which Sanchez reflects on her art and activism. Jacqueline Wood's introduction illuminates Sanchez's stagecraft in relation to her poetry and advocacy for social change, and the feminist dramatic voice in black revolutionary art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese seven plays by Sonia Sanchez form an emotional and historic bridge from the loud revolutionary power of the 1960s and the twentieth century to the more insidious and subtle challenges of this first decade of the twenty-first. Their power lies in their ability to present super\/real snapshots of their time and circumstance with the mystic clarity that mixing poetry and drama can create. From The Bronx Is Next,\" where Brothers prepare to burn down Harlem tenements, to \"2 X 2,\" where Beverly and Ramona Smith find one another, Sonia's persistent call to Blacks--and especially to women--is to find the strength to assemble our ghosts and demons, confront them, and lay them to rest. The plays are startling and open us to a Sonia Sanchez whose vision can see the world as stage, or, perhaps, stage as the world.\"--Charles Fuller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonia Sanchez is a poet, playwright, and activist living in Philadelphia. Her many books of poetry include \u003ci\u003eShake Loose My Skin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDoes Your House Have Lions?\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUnder a Soprano Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHomegirls and Handgrenades\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWe a BaddDDD People\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHomecoming\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of numerous honors recognizing her writing and activism, among them a PEN Writers' Award and an American Book Award, as well as the Community Service Award from the National Black Caucus of State Legislators and the Peace and Freedom Award from the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacqueline Wood is Associate Professor of African American Literature and the Interim Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 196\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 17, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50483226411245,"sku":"9780822347781","price":32.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-gb\/products\/im-black-when-im-singing-im-blue-when-i-aint-and-other-plays-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}