Duberman, Martin - Duberman, Martin 1930–
Duberman, Martin 1930–
American playwright, essayist, and editor, Duberman is best known for his plays which combine fact with fiction, as, for example, the documentary In White America or the quasibiographical Visions of Kerouac. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
In White America [is] a documentary of the Negro's trek through the jungle of white American injustice (and occasional decency), from his arrival here to this very day which is, if not a day, at least a dawn. From letters, journals, journalistic accounts, trial records, and similar sources. Martin B. Duberman has assembled a piece of history that makes good theater because it is true, interesting and overwhelmingly important. And it is theater—even if not art—in the best sense: moving, funny, humane, genuine and, best of all, unflaggingly provocative, coming as it does from sources most of us would always have been unaware of, and the...
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