| Autor: |
Kumar, Nita N. |
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Literary Endeavour; Oct2021, Vol. 12 Issue 4, p114-118, 5p |
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The paper discusses Marita Bonner's use of the European high-modernist expressionist dramatic form in the context of race relations during the period of the Harlem Renaissance. She is seen as an exception at a time when the dominant modes of playwriting were either the social-realist form or folk drama using elements of traditional black culture. Bonner's play The Purple Flower is discussed as being expressionistic in its desire for a new egalitarian world as well as in its use of techniques and features such as abstract setting and characters, and lack of dramatic conflict in the play. The advocacy of violent action in the resolution of the play is seen as unusual for the period of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and as looking forward to the later Black Arts movement in the 1960s. The ending is also problematized in the context of the conventions of expressionist drama. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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