In One Act African Studies and stories of lived experience

and stories of lived experience

and America's casual racism

"I could not put this book down

Since the day of her parents' tragic deaths a decade earlier

drawing on queer traditions and the work of legendary figures going back nearly a century

In One Act African Studies and stories of lived experience"Since her earliest plays. . . [Adrienne Kennedy] has been creating frightful and seductive theatrical images of her memories and fantasies. Her black, female protagonists enact Kennedy's nightmares, then make them ours, enveloping the audience in their relentless anger, madness, and fear . . . time and place shift constantly, plot lines are parceled out in bits, and a contextual frame comes clear gradually, like a reflection is stilling waters."