Moon Marked & Touched by Sun: Plays by African-American Women

by Sydné Mahone (Editor)

Moon Marked and Touched by Sun: Plays by African-American Women takes the reader on a dramatic cultural journey which is one well worth taking. Edited by Sydne Mahone, this volume contains plays by such celebrated authors as Aisha Rahman, Susan Lori Parks and Adrienne Kennedy, among others. Although some of the material such as Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro and Parks' The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World is a little abstract, this anthology is a must-read for any one with an interest in Black theater and an eye-opener for anyone intelligent enough to want to delve into the mind of the African-American woman. Moon Marked as a collection deals with the paradoxes of being Black, being female, and being an artist in a world which can be cruel to each and everyone of them.

WARNING: This book is not for the weak at heart or mind: it contains some profanity and extremely thought-provoking material.

Genres: Plays

448 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1994

Reviews

[Collin]

READ 2-29-20:

* The Mojo and the Sayso, Aishah Rahman
* excerpts from Fires In the Mirror, Anna Deveare Smith
* Live and In Color!, Danitra Vance

[behsforensics]

Cutting is for Live and in Color
By Danitra Vance

[Megan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read WOMBanWARs by Judith Alexa Jackson as part of the Reading Women 2019 Challenge.

[Jerry Thompson · Rating 5 out of 5]

jam packed with interviews, conversations, day dreams, plays, prose-esque deliciousness on all things black woman, sistah, mother, daughter, lover and survivor! Each page a continent of wisdom and genius of brown sugar and spice of good times hot times and in between - Feast your soul with is incredible anthology immediately!

[DarrenBrennan · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars for Anna Deveare Smith's Fires in the Mirror rounded up to 4