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The “Negro” of the play Sarah has created several personas for herself as a way to cope with her madness and inner conflict, Two of these selves are the epitome of whiteness: the British Queen Victoria and the Austrian Duchess of Hapsburg. The women are sitting together in Sarah’s room, hearing a loud knocking and determining it is their father returning from the dead to torment them.
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Start: Victoria: (Listening to the knocking.) It is my father. He is arriving again for the night. (The Duchess makes no reply.) He comes through the jungle to find me. He never tires of his journey.
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End: Victoria: But he is dead. Duchess: And he keeps returning.
Kennedy, Adrienne. “Funnyhouse of a Negro.” Adrienne Kennedy in One Act. University of Minnesota Press, 1988, pp. 3-4.
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