Paul Green : North Carolina writers on the legacy of the state's most celebrated playwright /

Paul Green (1894-1981) is best known for his outdoor historical dramas, which are still performed across the United States. In North Carolina, The Lost Colony remains a must-do event on a trip to the Outer Banks. Green was not only a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, but was also an activist commit...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Eubanks, Georgann (Editor), Bauer, Margaret Donovan, 1963- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina : Blair, an imprint of Carolina Wren Press, [2024].
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Georgann Eubanks
  • Bearing witness : the Harnett County of Paul Green's childhood / Jill McCorkle
  • Education South / Paul Green
  • Letter to Paul Green / Phillip Shabazz
  • The limits of the white gaze in Paul Green's one-act White Dresses / Kathryn Hunter-Williams
  • Comfortable and uncomfortable aspects of Paul Green's The House of Connelly and In Abraham's Bosom / Jim Grimsley
  • Stepping over the line : Paul Green's Hymn to the Rising Sun / Mike Wiley
  • Leaning toward the light / Lynden Harris
  • Problems of the hero : the many endings of Native Son / Ian Finley
  • "That better way to find" : adapting Paul Green's antiwar play, Johnny Johnson / Debra Kaufman
  • Paul Green and James Boyd : the best of friends during the Jim Crow era / Ray Owen
  • Love is the soul of man / Marjorie Hudson
  • Living my native past in the present / Synora Hunt Cummings
  • Epilogue: Paul Green, "Deeply haunted" writer/activist / Margaret D. Bauer.