id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_aa2uwpbgdra2zmzojavfjlq5d4 Quan Manh Ha The Violence of Duality in Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro 2018 15 .pdf application/pdf 6630 429 56 nationalist groups like Black Power, constructing instead a nightmare world in which race Kennedy, through the disturbed cast of Sarah's mind, portrays a world in which race obsession white man entered a historic black church in South Carolina and murdered nine characters, Kennedy examines the crushing weight of history on the black individual, which in the extreme can drive African Americans to insanity and selfdestruction. Through the staged projection of Sarah's mind, Kennedy deconstructs the complex of culturally ingrained that blacks are inherently inferior to whites, once internalized, foments the selfloathing psychosis that ravages Sarah's consciousness. political agenda augments her ultimate message: any attempt to attribute superiority to skin pigmentation is absurd, whether it be white racism or Black Power. 3. Black Identity and Kennedy's Critique of Western Colonialism Using this caricature to weave Sarah's image of Jesus with her other component selves, Kennedy projects the grimmer aspects of the black experience as ./cache/work_aa2uwpbgdra2zmzojavfjlq5d4.pdf ./txt/work_aa2uwpbgdra2zmzojavfjlq5d4.txt