"What Exactly Is a Black?": Interrogating the Reality of Race in Jean Genet's The Blacks
On the dedication page of The Blacks , Genet writes "One evening an actor asked me to write a play for an all-black cast. But what exactly is a black? First of all, what's his color?" Prefiguring major issues and paradoxes of African American cultural studies today, The Blacks insi...
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New Prairie Press
2002-06-01
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| Series: | Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature |
| Online Access: | http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol26/iss2/8 |