Rich Relations (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: David Henry Hwang
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Play
- Genres: Drama, Dark comedy
- Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, California, Fathers, Mysticism, Wealth, Materialism, Technology, Resurrection
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA
In the introduction to F.O.B., and Other Plays, Hwang describes a two-year hiatus from writing that proceeded Rich Relations and comments that the play reestablished his commitment to writing. It is about the possibility of resurrection, he asserts, and writing it resurrected his love for work. Elsewhere, he calls the play autobiographical, even though Rich Relations is the first play that Hwang wrote that has no specifically Asian roles. The characters are white because Hwang is testing whether literary segregation implies cultural limitation. As an American...
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