Kennedy's plays are often described as surreal and dreamlike. Select a moment from the play you...

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Kennedy's plays are often described as surreal and dreamlike. Select a moment from the play you think is surreal and discuss the justification for your choice.
An aspect of the surreal quality of the play is captured through the multiple Sarahs that appear in the script. What do Sarah's different "selves" represent in the play?
"Nonlinear" is a term used to describe Kennedy's work, particularly her early plays. What does the term mean and how does it apply to this play?
Research the Civil Rights movement of the early 1960s, in particular the effects of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. How do you think this movement impacted the lives of middle-class African Americans like Sarah?
Review researched psychological writings on the children of interracial marriages. Discuss Sarah's identity crisis, self-hatred, and subsequent suicide in light of your findings. Has society changed? Would Sarah feel this way today?
The character of Sarah feels alienated from both her African-American heritage and white heritage. Write a well-developed paragraph discussing your own heritage and what it means to you. Does it help define who you are? What else defines you as a person?

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Title: Discussion on Kennedy’s Plays
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1. Justification of Choosing a Play of Kennedy	3
2. Different Masks of Sarah	3
3. Nonlinear Narration	4
4. Civil Rights Movement affecting the lives of middle-class African Americans like Sarah	4
5. Issues with Children of Interracial Marriages	5
6. My Heritage Defining Me as a Person	5
Works Cited	6
1. Justification of Choosing a Play of Kennedy
Adrienne Kennedy is an African-American playwright who is always prominent and sticks out from the crowd because of her work, which offers realization of discrimination that her community faces with fantastic imaginary. Born in 1931 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Kennedy’s work reveals the pain of an African-American with her high poetic and passionate language. This essay focuses on one of her outstanding work, “Funnyhouse of a Negro” and different aspects and qualities of the play.
“Funnyhouse of a Negro” is a brilliant psychodrama, Obie Award winner play by Adrienne Kennedy, which was premiered in 1964. The play beautifully translates the experience of an African-American in the form of the protagonist Sarah, who was an African-American woman in her late twenties, living in New York. Belonging to a mixed heritage, Sarah wants her friends to be all white wants and wishes to live her life just like her white friends (Alsanafi et al.).
The transformation of Sarah into other characters is a personal favorite surreal work. She transformed into Jesus, the Duchess of Hapsburg, Patrice Lumumba and Queen Victoria Regina. She wants to leave her African heritage and erase all her features related to that particular heritage and wishes to dive into American heritage completely. The play ends with Sarah committing suicide (Ha and Hogan).
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