Homebody/Kabul (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Tony Kushner
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Play
- Genres: Drama
- Subjects: Parents and children, Colonialism, Marriage, Muslims, Afghanistan or Afghani people
- Locales: Afghanistan
Homebody/Kabul commences with a long monologue delivered by a middle-aged woman (“Homebody”) who discourses upon her empty marriage and inexorable attraction to exotic and beautiful Afghanistan because she learns from an old travel book about its ancient and modern struggles against Western colonialism. This is ironic since Homebody is British, and Great Britain was a major colonialist power.
Interwoven with this history lesson, Homebody's detailed ruminations include a story about her purchase of ten Afghan hats to give to friends as party favors. As she pays for the...
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