| re: Tonya Pinkins: Open Letter To Jesse Green of the New York Times |
| Last Edit: singleticket 05:50 pm EST 11/12/22 |
| Posted by: singleticket 05:47 pm EST 11/12/22 |
| In reply to: Tonya Pinkins: Open Letter To Jesse Green of the New York Times - standingO 01:50 pm EST 11/12/22 |
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| I didn't read the whole thing either. I think it's great that Hansberry is being reclaimed as a queer black woman writer but I wonder if she would have appreciated being tethered to it. From what I understand, Hansberry lived most of her short life as a heterosexual married to a man and had a closeted, conflicted but full romantic life as a lesbian. Hansberry was also conflicted about what she saw as her role as a "movement writer" and as being expected or compelled to write what we would now call identity plays. Her unfinished (or rather rushed into production as she was dying) play "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window" very consciously does not center black characters but focuses rather on white leftist culture, a culture Hansberry was intimately familiar with. |
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