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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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.