METAPHORICAL MIRRORS AND SUBVERTING SELVES IN ADRIENNE KENNEDY’S ONE-ACT PLAYS Cover Image

METAPHORICAL MIRRORS AND SUBVERTING SELVES IN ADRIENNE KENNEDY’S ONE-ACT PLAYS
METAPHORICAL MIRRORS AND SUBVERTING SELVES IN ADRIENNE KENNEDY’S ONE-ACT PLAYS

Author(s): Gabriella Tóth
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara

Summary/Abstract: Beginning her career in the 1960s, Adrienne Kennedy was one of the most influential writers of the period. Her plays subverted both Western and African American theatre. Although like her contemporaries she reacted to the political events of the period, in contrast with them she presented racial issues in a non-realistic mode. Her plays exemplify the re-theatricalisation of the African American stage.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 367-386
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: English