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Author
Series
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid?Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bearing on identity...
Author
Series
Library of America ; 372
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Adrienne Kennedy has been a force on the American stage since the premiere of her groundbreaking, Obie Award-winning Funnyhouse of a Negro in 1964. Politically engaged, formally daring, and making provocative use of material from contemporary history and popular culture, Kennedy's haunting stage works dramatize and project interior realities that are often marked by disappointment and trauma, madness and terror. Her understanding of the inner lives...
16) August Wilson
Language
English
Description
Discussion and criticism of Ma Rainey's black bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's come and gone and Two trains running.
