Funnyhouse of a Negro (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Adrienne Lita Hawkins
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Surrealistic
- Time of Work: The mid-1960’s
- Setting: New York City
- Principal Characters: Sarah, Duchess of Hapsburg, Queen Victoria Regina, Jesus, Patrice Lumumba, The Mother, The Landlady, Raymond
- Genres: Drama, Surrealist literature, Women’s literature
- Subjects: African Americans, 1960’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Racism, New York City, Prejudices or antipathies, Oppression, Fratricide, parricide, or filicide, Imagination
- Locales: New York, NY
The Play
Funnyhouse of a Negro is the dreamlike enactment of Sarah’s internal struggle over who she is and where she belongs. Although many of the specific incidents in this one-act play are drawn from Adrienne Kennedy’s own life, the drama attempts, through the poetry of word and image, to enlarge these very personal conflicts and to make them relevant to problems in the culture at large. The style of this play is surrealistic, expressionistic, and absurdist. The plot of the play should not, therefore, be regarded as a credible or realistic story, nor should readers...
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