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Volume : II, Issue : II, March - 2012 The Jezebel Stereotype in August Wilson Play “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom” Abdulmalik Nagi Hussein Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 1982 play - one of the ten-play Pittsburgh Cycle by , a -Pulitzer Prize
winning American playwright - that chronicles the twentieth century African American experience.1 August
Wilson is a contemporary African American playwright who has radically influenced the development of
African American dramatic tradition. Wilsons' female characters represent his perception and conception of
art and on expression of African-American culture. However, the women in Wilson's plays commonly do not
play dominant roles. In fact, they are unusually outnumbered by the men, as there may be only one woman
amongst a cast of several men. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : Abdulmalik Nagi Hussein, (2012). The Jezebel Stereotype in August Wilson Play “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom”. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. II, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/810.pdf References : - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Rainey%27s_Bl ack_Bottom
- http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/jezebel/
- Collins, Particia Hill. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and Politics of Empowement. New York: Routlage, 1991. P. 67-68.
- M. Anderson Lisa, Mammies No More: The Changing Image of Black Women on Stage and Screen, Rowman and Littlefield Press. 1997. P.xxvii
- Kim Marra, Ma Rainey and Boyz: Gender Ideology in August Wilson's Broadway Cannon, August Wilson: A Casebook. Ed. Marily Elkins. New York: Garland, 1994, P. 144.
- Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Though: Knowledge, Consciousness and the politics of Empowerment, London, New York : Routledge, 1991, P-70.
- Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Though: Knowledge, Consciousness and the politics of Empowerment, London, New York : Routledge, 1991, P-70.
- August Wilson. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. In Black Thunder. An Anthology of Contemporary African American Drama, Ed. and Introd. William B. Brach. New York: Penguin, 1992. P. 81.
- Ibid., P. 75.
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