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Genet's Theatre of Possession

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2021

Allan Francovich
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Extract

The time has not yet come for presenting dramas about noble matters. But perhaps they suspect what lies behind this architecture of emptiness and words. We are what they want us to be. We shall therefore be it to the very end and absurdly.

Archibald in The Blacks

The white man is buried in his whiteness.

The black man in his blackness.

We shall seek to determine the directions of this dual narcissism and the motivations which inspire it.

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

…listen… oh I was forgetting, thieves that we are, we have tried to filch your fine language. Liars that we are, the names I have mentioned to you are false. Listen…

Archibald in The Blacks

Type
Research Article
Information
The Drama Review , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , Fall 1969 , pp. 25 - 45
Copyright
Copyright © 1969 The Drama Review

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References

1 This and all following quotations from Jean Genet's The Blacks are from: Genet, Jean. The Blacks. Translated by Frechtman, Bernard. (New York: Grove Press, 1960).Google Scholar

2 This and all following quotations from Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks are from: Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Translated by Lam Markmann, Charles. (New York: Grove Press, 1967).Google Scholar

3 All quotations from The Wretched of the Earth are from: Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Translated by Farrington, Constance. (New York: Grove Press, 1963).Google Scholar