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The Blacks (French: Les Nègres) is a play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. Published in 1958, it was first performed in a production directed by Roger Blin at the Théâtre de Lutèce in Paris, France, which opened on 28 October 1959.
Synopsis. Jean Genet’s exploration of racial prejudice and stereotypes remains as shocking and provocative today as it was in 1959. Inspired by Ghana’s independence in 1957 (the first black African country to free itself from imperial rule), The Blacks analyzes the whole dynamic of race and the perception of black and white. Using the ...
discussed in biography. In Jean Genet. The Balcony ), Les Nègres (1958; The Blacks ), and Les Paravents (1961; The Screens ), are large-scale, stylized dramas in the Expressionist manner, designed to shock and implicate an audience by revealing its hypocrisy and complicity.
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The Blacks. Jean Genet, Bernard Frechtman (Translator) 3.56. 681 ratings50 reviews. "In form, it flows as freely as an improvisation, with fantasy, allegory and intimations of reality mingled into a weird, stirring unity. . . . Genet's investigation of the color black begins where most plays of this burning theme leave off. . . .
Genet's The Blacks : 'And Why Does One Laugh at a Negro?' Jean Genet's play The Blacks: A Clown Show offers a pure performance of segregation. Just as the mise en abîme (the play within the play) represents different layers of theatre, so the play offers layers of colours that overlap without ever mixing, black framing the contour of the
22–44. Published: April 2024. Split View. Annotate. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. This chapter considers the audience participation in Jean Genet’s controversial play The Blacks (1959) as it was staged in the New York premiere in 1961 and revival in 2003 at the Classical Theatre of Harlem (CTH).
