O'Neill Play by Play: Racial Realities and Representations

Racial Realities and Representations

(See also All God’s Chillun Got Wings, The Dreamy Kid, The Emperor Jones, and Moon of the Caribbees)

Gill, Glenda E. ‘“Interlopers”: African-American actors in non-traditional roles in the works of Eugene O’Neill.’ Eugene O’Neill Review 26 2004 70-86

Gillett, Peter J. ‘O’Neill and the racial myths.’ Twentieth Century Literature 18 1972 111-20; repr. on pp 45-58 in Griffin [S96] (on five ‘Negro’ plays)

Guha-Majumdar, Rupendra. ‘Eugene O'Neill's tryst with the power of blackness.’ Pp 114-30 in Bloom 3

Lovell, John. ‘O’Neill’s darker brother.’ Theatre Arts 32 Feb 1948 45-48 [M194]

Marx, Lesley. ‘“Souls under skins”: Robeson, O’Neill and Everyman.’ Pp 67-76 in Marx et al., eds. Juxtapositions: the Harlem renaissance and the lost generation. Cape Town: Univ. of Cape Town, 2000

Oliver, Roger W. ‘From the exotic to the real: the evolution of black characterization in three plays by Eugene O’Neill.’ Forum (Houston) 13 iii 1976 56-61 [S49]

Onunwa, Paschal. ‘Eugene O’Neill: a voice for racial justice.’ Recorder 3 i 1989 15-24 [S49]

Pawley, Thomas D. ‘The black world of Eugene O’Neill.’ Pp 137-48 in Liu [S114] (plays set in the Caribbean)

Press, Marcia. ‘Black man—white woman: the “lynch pattern” as morality play.’ Pp 57-68 in Karelisa V. Hartigan, ed. Text and presentation: the University of Florida Department of Classics Comparative Drama Conference papers, volume VIII. Lanham, MD: UP of America, 1988 [S116]

Ranveer, K. G. ‘Eugene O’Neill’s treatment of black experience.’ Pp 171-75 in Prasad [S118]

Shaughnessy, Edward L. ‘O’Neill’s African and Irish-American stereotypes or “faithful realism.”’ Pp 148-63 in Manheim [S121]

Shaughnessy, Edward P. ‘Eugene O’Neill: the development of Negro portraiture.’ MELUS 11 iii 1984 87-91 [S59] (Previous bibliographies mistakenly attributed this article to Edward L. Shaughnessy.)

Smith, Madeline C., & Richard Eaton. ‘Dismissed without prejudice: Eugene O’Neill’s anti-semitism, or some of my best friends . . .’ West Virginia University Philological Papers 54 2011 61-68