Paul Green : North Carolina writers on the legacy of the state's most celebrated playwright / edited by Georgann Eubanks and Margaret Bauer.

Format Book
PublicationDurham, NC : Blair, an imprint of Carolina Wren Press, [2024]
Copyright Date©2024
Descriptionxvi, 158 pages : black & white illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Green, Paul, 1894-1981.
Green, Paul, 1894-1981--Criticism and interpretation.
Dramatists, American--North Carolina.

Other author/creatorEubanks, Georgann editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjv7MW7FjPpYKRPDj99xDq
Other author/creatorBauer, Margaret Donovan, 1963- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjM7yPy4DMjCMyqPB3JGpd
Other author/creatorCummings, Synora Hunt, contributor.
Other author/creatorFinley, Ian, contributor.
Other author/creatorGrimsley, Jim, 1955- contributor.
Other author/creatorHarris, Lynden, 1957- contributor.
Other author/creatorHudson, Majorie, contributor.
Other author/creatorHunter-Williams, Kathryn, contributor.
Other author/creatorKaufman, Debra, contributor.
Other author/creatorMcCorkle, Jill, 1958- contributor.
Other author/creatorOwen, Ray, contributor.
Other author/creatorShabazz, Phillip, contributor.
Other author/creatorWiley, Mike, contributor.
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 -- References -- Contributors.
Abstract "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 committed to human rights, racial equity, prison reform, and ending the death penalty. This anthology includes the frank reflections from an array of award-winning contemporary North Carolina writers. Their essays about Green's work and relationships will launch new conversations about a man who was seen as progressive, even radical in his time" -- Provided by publisher.
Genre/formLiterary criticism.
Genre/formEssays.
Genre/formBiographies.
Genre/formCritiques littéraires.
Genre/formBiographies.
LCCN 2024935952
ISBN1958888230 (paperback)
ISBN9781958888230 (paperback)