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Beneatha’s Place de Kwame Kwei-Armah

Beneatha’s Place: Student Editions

Autor Kwame Kwei-Armah Oladipo Agboluaje
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 iul 2025
Alongside Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park, Beneatha's Place imagines a life for Lorraine Hansberry's characters from A Raisin in the Sun beyond the confines of her play.

Beneatha moves from 1950s America to Lagos with her Nigerian husband and then, in the second act, set in contemporary America, has become a college Dean of Social Sciences. Through this journey, Beneatha's Place challenges today's culture wars about colonial history and reckoning with the past.

This Student Edition, with an introduction and notes by Oladipo Agboluaje, offers a lens on the play's relationship to Hansberry's 1959 play and Clybourne Park; unpacks its engagement with the post-independence politics in Africa and pan-Africanism; considers how other plays to have dealt with these themes; and compares responses to the US and UK productions.

The edition includes original interviews with Kwame Kwei-Armah and actor Cherelle Skeete, who played the character of Beneatha in the UK premiere of the play.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350497726
ISBN-10: 135049772X
Pagini: 120
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Student Editions

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Chronology

Contexts - historical & political (1950s America, post-independence politics in Africa, pan-Africanism; Black Lives Matter) and literary (Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun; Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park; Wole Soyinka's A Dance of Forests; and The Dilemma of a Ghost by Ama Ata Aidoo)

Themes (gender; race; decolonization; critical race theory; culture wars)

Language

Structure

Dramatic devices (lighting, sound, costume, scenography)

Play in production (critical responses, comparison of Baltimore and London productions)

Interviews (Kwame Kwei-Armah and Cherelle Skeete)

BENEATHA'S PLACE

Notes

Recenzii

A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry's landmark 1959 play, ends with its most optimistic character considering leaving the US with her Nigerian suitor, finding identity in an independent Africa. In his drama, Kwame Kwei-Armah takes Beneatha ... to Lagos - only to find colonialism's enmeshed tentacles difficult to clear ... If Hansberry's play is about ownership - whether Black Americans have a stake in the American dream - then Kwei-Armah's concerns legacy: the persistent effects of colonialism and how Black thinkers can shape the future.
Kwame Kwei-Armah's highly charged play about race and the ownership of history could scarcely feel more timely. Or be more of a challenging workout for its audience's presumptions and prejudices, whatever their skin colour.