Funnyhouse of a Negro (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Adrienne Kennedy
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Surrealism
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: New York City
- 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
Characters Discussed
Sarah, also referred to as Negro, a student and poet who has retreated to the room that contains her treasures. She is a pale black woman who wants either to deny her black heritage or to die. Wearing black clothes and an executioner’s rope, Sarah has masses of frizzy hair, one clump of which she carries with her, but only blood for facial features. She verbalizes the internal conflict between her ancestries as a trap from which she cannot extricate herself despite surrounding herself with white friends to guard against recognition of her black...
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