Introduction
Peculiar Juno : staging Black female pleasure
Bridging the modern : neurotic sentimentality encounters racial uplift in Angelina Weld Grimké's Rachel
Houses against violence : early-twentieth-century Black women playwrights
When saints build frames : sacred/secular musical pageantry in Alice Childress's plays
Sailing/sealing over ravines : process as constant in the work of Adrienne Kennedy
Dipped in the pool : Shange's choreopoems as Atlantic crossings.