Green Card (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: JoAnne Akalaitis
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Social
- Time of Work: The 1980’s, with flashbacks to the late 1800’s, early 1900’s, and 1960’s
- Setting: The United States and a jungle
- Genres: Drama, Folk drama
- Subjects: Discrimination, Language or languages, United States or Americans, 1980’s, Ethnic groups, Immigration or emigration, Oppression, Minorities, Jungles or rain forests, Rock music
- Locales: United States
Characters Discussed
Raye, an Anglo man, forty to sixty years old. Raye takes the part of a nineteenth century Jewish immigrant from Lithuania. He tells how his people were persecuted in Europe and how wonderful America seemed to him on his arrival. Later, he dons a comical wig to portray the overbearing host of the Green Card Show. He also plays a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who describes the Cambodian people in a patronizing and stereotypical manner.
Jesse, a young Latin man. Jesse plays a nightclub comic who spews out racial slurs for ironic effect, in...
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