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Writer Zakiyyah Alexander on Writer Adrienne Kennedy.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women dramatists.
- Memory in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (3 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Look What SHE Did!, 2014.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Playwright Zakiyyah Alexander discusses writer Adrienne Kennedy. Her unprecedented play Funnyhouse of a Negro won the Obie in the sixties, launching a career that defies categorization. Lyrical, violent, dreamlike, deeply personal but not naturalistic- critic Alisa Solomon describes Adrienne's work as "the process of turning memory into meaning." In this interview Zakiyyah describes her recent experiences with iconoclast Adrienne Kennedy.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed April 15, 2024).
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI.
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