Funnyhouse of a Negro | Essays and Criticism
- Hair and Baldness in Funnyhouse
In this essay, Petrusso explores two prominent symbols used in Kennedy’s play.
- A Prison of Object Relations:
Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro
In the following essay, Barnett discusses Kennedy’s play in terms of the psychological theory of projecting one’s hope’s and fears onto others. This makes others into ideal or persecutory objects respectively, and focuses on treating others as objects rather than as a unified whole.
- No Place but the Funnyhouse:
The Struggle for Identity in Three Adrienne Kennedy Plays
In the following essay, Meigs treats Sarah’s multiple selves as masks that represent an imprisonment that keeps Sarah, like many African-American women, from having the power ‘‘to resolve the chaotic elements of their black female identities.’’
- For the Characters Are Myself’:
Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro
In the following essay, Brown sees the play as a world in which ‘‘Blackness, femaleness, and education are equally important isolating factors.’’
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