WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. The play shared this award with Amiri Baraka's Dutchman, and was influenced by both the Black Arts Movement and the Theater of the Absurd. The play opened off-Broadway in 1964 and won the Obie Award for Distinguished Play. Funnyhouse of a Negro is a one-act play by Adrienne Kennedy. Funnyhouse of a Negro is a modern classic about the student Sarah, a young black woman living in New York City, and her search for her identity in a very complex, warring, and fractured world. View all Adrienne Kennedy Quotes. When Kennedy entered Ohio State University in 1949, she experienced racism for the first time.

Adrienne Kennedy - Funnyhouse of a Negro (1969) 1 Sourced Quote. Lists. It is my father. Search for Library Items Search for Lists Search for Contacts Search for a Library. This search is manifested in her many selves: Queen Victoria, the Duchess of Hapsburg, Patrice Lumumba, and Jesus Christ.
She was raised in an ethnically diverse neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio, where her father worked as a social worker and her mother was a schoolteacher.

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Kennedy was born Adrienne Hawkins on September 13, 1931, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Share with your friends the best quotes from Funnyhouse of a Negro. Upon graduation in 1953, with a B.A. Collection of sourced quotations from Funnyhouse of a Negro (1969) by Adrienne Kennedy.

Search. link Link Funnyhouse of a Negro is the dreamlike enactment of Sarah’s internal struggle over who she is and where she belongs.

Resources. Funnyhouse of a Negro is a modern classic about the student Sarah, a young black woman living in New York City, and her search for her idenity in a very complex, warring, and fractured world. While the play has been produced on stage numerous times, it has been more frequently studied in academic settings than it has been produced. Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro is an avant-garde one-act drama about a young African American college student named Negro Sarah who desperately wishes that she was white. Topics. This captivating one act play explores the psychological trauma of race and identity in America that is amazingly salient today over 50 years after Kennedy’s Obie award for this work. This search is manifested in her many selves: Queen Victoria, the Duchess of Hapsburg, Patrice Lumumba, and Jesus Christ. Kennedy began writing plays a… Find items in libraries near you. Authors. More about Adrienne Kennedy. Create lists, bibliographies and reviews: or Search WorldCat. Read 18 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. in education, Kennedy married Joseph C. Kennedy; the couple had two sons together before their divorce in 1966.