Fragmented Selves in Adrienne Kennedy's "Funnyhouse of a Negro" and "The Owl Answers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4791685 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rosemary Curb (corresponding author), Rosemary K Curb |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 180 |
| Publication date | 1980-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theatre Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-2882 • E-ISSN: 1086-332X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3207111 |
| OpenAlex | W2334261292 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Adrienne Kennedy, one of the most innovative and subjective American playwrights to emerge in the 1960s, creates a theatrical nightmare world removed from ordinary perceptions of time and space. Rather than presenting linear plots with chronological narrative progression, she portrays the fragmented mental states of her characters, who dramatize their many facets by changing costumes as a symbolic representation of their changing personalities or by having their separate selves externally represented as separate characters. Of course, a staged nightmare cannot operate in the real world of time and space
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| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 2023 (28) |
| Highly cited | No |