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Adrienne Kennedy
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Adrienne Kennedy

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    Adrienne Kennedy, another 1960s writer who was similarly more postmodernist than nationalist, made her avant-garde theater debut with stunningly innovative, nightmarish one-act plays, most notably Funnyhouse of a Negro (produced 1962) and The Owl Answers (produced 1963), which featured surrealist spectacles of Black women caught…

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    Adrienne Kennedy, another 1960s writer who was similarly more postmodernist than nationalist, made her avant-garde theater debut with stunningly innovative, nightmarish one-act plays, most notably Funnyhouse of a Negro (produced 1962) and The Owl Answers (produced 1963), which featured surrealist spectacles of Black women caught…

    Read More