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Serial black face / Janine Nabers ; foreword by Marsha Norman.

Title
Serial black face / Janine Nabers ; foreword by Marsha Norman.
Author
Nabers, Janine
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]

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Additional Authors
Norman, Marsha
Description
x, 111 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
  • "The year is 1979 and a serial killer in Atlanta is abducting and murdering young black children. Against a backdrop of fear and uncertainty, playwright Janine Nabers explores the emotional battleground where an African-American single mother wars with her teenage daughter, each coping in her own way with personal tragedy and loss. The volatility of their situation is intensified when a severely damaged and devastatingly handsome stranger becomes an integral part of their lives."--Back cover
  • "Serial Black Face is the seventh winner of the DC Horn Foundation/Yale Drama Series Prize, selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman. At once startling, engrossing, suspenseful, and exhilarating, Nabers's powerful drama employs a real-life nightmare, the Atlanta Child Murders of the late 1970s, to incisively examine human frailty and the prickly complexities of a mother-daughter relationship. A stunning theatrical work, both thoughtful and profoundly moving, Serial Black Face is richly deserving of this year's prize."--Back cover
Series Statement
Yale drama series
Uniform Title
Yale drama series
Subject
  • 2000 - 2099
  • African Americans > Drama
  • Mother and child > Drama
  • Serial murders > Atlanta > Drama
  • American drama > 21st century
  • Atlanta (Ga.) > Drama
Genre/Form
Drama
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 0300211376
  • 9780300211375
OCLC
904811736
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library