V Efua Prince

V Efua Prince

V. Efua Prince is the author of Burnin’ Down the House, Daughter’s Exchange, and numerous essays including the award winning “June.” She is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University and has served as an Associate Professor of English and Black Studies and as director of Black Studies at Allegheny College, the Avalon Professor of Humanities at Hampton University, a visiting...
V. Efua Prince is the author of Burnin’ Down the House, Daughter’s Exchange, and numerous essays including the award winning “June.” She is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University and has served as an Associate Professor of English and Black Studies and as director of Black Studies at Allegheny College, the Avalon Professor of Humanities at Hampton University, a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute, and a fellow at Harvard University’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute. Prince received her PhD from the University of Michigan in English Language and Literature.

Plays

  • Waterbearers by V Efua Prince
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    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: housework, women's history + 4 more
    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama, experimental
    Keyword: housework, women's history, African American women, Labor and Unions, domestic service, laundry
    Waterbearers is a choreopoem that gathers 31 fragments to represent what it means for African American women to do laundry. A mercurial cast consisting of three women share information about water and anecdotes about domestic service and instructions about laundry to link women working in the twentieth century with nineteenth century laborers. Taken together the fragments tell a story about the convergence of...
    Waterbearers is a choreopoem that gathers 31 fragments to represent what it means for African American women to do laundry. A mercurial cast consisting of three women share information about water and anecdotes about domestic service and instructions about laundry to link women working in the twentieth century with nineteenth century laborers. Taken together the fragments tell a story about the convergence of unpaid labor and industry; of water-work and industrial development; and of generations of African American women whose domestic service transformed into a labor of love.
  • Rhobert by V Efua Prince
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    Genre: adaptation, experimental
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    Keyword: African American family, sexual violence + 1 more
    Genre: adaptation, experimental
    Keyword: African American family, sexual violence, Jean Toomer
    Rhobert is a deconstructed monolog of a woman’s fractured selves reflecting on what it means to love men whose trauma has turned outward as sexual violence. Rhobert is a revision of a short story of the same name found in Jean Toomer's Cane.
  • Period. by V Efua Prince
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: African American women, menopause + 3 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: African American women, menopause, child-bearing, family, adult friendships
    Period. meets three road-weary African American women on vacation together after long years of marriage and child-bearing