ERIC Number: ED150603
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Publication Date: 1977-Nov
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Teaching Black Theatre and Adolescence: The Stifling Mother in Three Plays.
Gill, Glenda
To engage students' interest and help them appreciate black drama, teachers may have their classes discuss and dramatize three plays that deal with adolescence and the stifling mother: James Baldwin's "The Amen Corner," Louis Peterson's "Take a Giant Step," and J.E. Franklin's "Black Girl." This paper shows how the adolescents in these plays experience great pain while growing up in an authoritarian, matriarchal household and examines the ways in which the mothers in these plays attempt to impose their wills on their children. The children in these plays seek refuge in sex or drink and, in two cases, escape from their mothers' dominance by moving away from home. (GW)
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