focuses on contemporary literary works, plays in particular, written after 1976 by Africana women writers. DeLinda Marzette explores the numerous ways these women writers create black female agency and vital, energizing communities.

DeLinda Marzette is Assistant Professor of African American Literature at Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View, Texas. Her PhD is from the University of Houston, and her BA is from Dillard University in New Orleans. Her literary research examines the way in which Africana women writers negotiate issues of displacement, alienation, and cultural hybridity.