Writing through the Bodies: Feminine Racial Consciousness in A Lesson in Dead Language by Adrienne Kennedy
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Adrienne Kennedy is one of the finest avant-garde, American playwrights and her plays have intense sensibilities of gender and racial discrimination. Deeply autobiographic, the plays are manifestations to her experiences as a Black woman living in America and dealing with the deep-rooted stereotypes of race and gender throughout her life. Her one of the lesser known play- ‘A lesson in Dead Language’ not only cuts across the racial divide but is a sharp attack on the patriarchy beyond all boundaries. An analysis of the play is attempted and feminist and humanist issues inherent in the play are explored with a context to the causes that compelled her to write the plays.
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Kennedy, Adrienne. A Lesson in Dead Language. Adrienne Kennedy in one Act. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1988. Print
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