Pearl Cleage

Pearl Cleage
Born (1948-12-07) December 7, 1948 (age 75)
Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • essayist
  • playwright
  • poet
NationalityAmerican
GenreAfrican-American literature
Notable worksWhat Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, Wish I Had a Red Dress, We Speak Your Names
Website
www.pearlcleage.net

Pearl Cleage (/klɛɡ/ KLEG; born December 7, 1948) is an African-American playwright, essayist, novelist, poet and political activist.[1][2] She is currently the Playwright in Residence at the Alliance Theatre and at the Just Us Theater Company.[3][4] Cleage is a political activist.[2] She tackles issues at the crux of racism and sexism, and is known for her feminist views, particularly regarding her identity as an African-American woman.[5][6] Her works are highly anthologized and have been the subject of many scholarly analyses.[3][7] Many of her works across several genres have earned both popular and critical acclaim.[4] Her novel What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (1997) was a 1998 Oprah's Book Club selection.[8]

  1. ^ Spratling, Cassandra. "Pearl Cleage's Storied Life Cover Story." Detroit Free Press, Feb 21, 2010. ProQuest.
  2. ^ a b Sammons, Benjamin. "Flyin' 'Anyplace Else': (Dis)Engaging Traumatic Memory in Three Plays by Pearl Cleage." Drama Criticism, edited by Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 32, Gale, 2009. Gale Literature Resource Center. Originally published in Reading Contemporary African American Drama: Fragments of History, Fragments of Self, edited by Trudier Harris and Jennifer Larson, Peter Lang, 2007, pp. 99–119.
  3. ^ a b Seese, June Akers. "Pearl Cleage". The New Georgia Encyclopedia. A project of the Georgia Humanities Council, in partnership with the University of Georgia Press, the University System of Georgia/GALILEO, and the Office of the Governor. Retrieved 4 September 2011.
  4. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference :4 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Cleage, Pearl. (1990). Mad at Miles : A Blackwoman's Guide to Truth. [Southfield, Mich.] (Evergreen Plaza, Suite 326, 19785 W. Twelve Mile Rd., Southfield 48076): Cleage Group Publication. ISBN 0-9628142-0-2. OCLC 24696989.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  6. ^ Giles, Freda Scott. "The Motion of Herstory: Three Plays by Pearl Cleage." African American Review, vol. 31, no. 4, 1997, pp. 709–712. JSTOR.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ "Winfrey, Oprah (Gail) 1/29/1954-" Encyclopedia of African-American Writing, edited by Shari Dorantes Hatch, Grey House Publishing, 3rd edition, 2018. Credo Reference.