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A Place to Be Someone: Growing Up with Charles Gordone
Shirley Gordon Jackson
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Hardcover. Before playwright Charles Gordone (19251995) became a Texan, he became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, for "No Place to Be Somebody", in 1970. This title covers the years prior to this geographical and psychological journey, the childhood and youth that deeply informed Gordones pilgrimage. Num Pages: 245 pages, 35 B/W photos. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 549.
Before playwright Charles Gordone (19251995) became a Texan, he became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, for ""No Place to Be Somebody"", in 1970. His search for a home in the West led him in 1987 to Texas A&M University, where he taught playwriting for the last nine years of his life, and to an influential role in the Cowboy Renaissance of the 1990s. Much as Mary Austin saw the West as a place without gender, Gordone regarded Texas as a place without race, where the need for neighbourly connections outweighed discriminatory urges. ""A Place ... Read more
Before playwright Charles Gordone (19251995) became a Texan, he became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, for ""No Place to Be Somebody"", in 1970. His search for a home in the West led him in 1987 to Texas A&M University, where he taught playwriting for the last nine years of his life, and to an influential role in the Cowboy Renaissance of the 1990s. Much as Mary Austin saw the West as a place without gender, Gordone regarded Texas as a place without race, where the need for neighbourly connections outweighed discriminatory urges. ""A Place ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
245
Place of Publication
Texas, United States
ISBN
9780896726352
SKU
V9780896726352
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