Alice Childress | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 20 pages of analysis & critique of Alice Childress.

Alice Childress | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 20 pages of analysis & critique of Alice Childress.
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SOURCE: "Whose Name, Whose Protection: Reading Alice Childress's Wedding Band," in Modern American Drama: The Female Canon, edited by June Schlueter, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990, pp. 184-96.

In the following essay, Wiley offers a feminist reading on the relationships among the female characters in Wedding Band.

In the first act of Wedding Band, a scene of reading and performance occurs that lies at the center of a feminist interpretation of the play. Mattie, a black woman who makes her living selling candy and caring for a little white girl, has received a letter from her husband in the Merchant Marine and needs a translator for it. Her new neighbor, Julia, the educated outsider trying to fit into working-class surroundings, reads the sentimental sailor's letter aloud. After her performance, in which the women listening have actively participated, Mattie tells Julia that, in addition to his love, her husband gives...

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