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JIMMY GARRETT (1944? - )
Nationality: USAemail: n/a Website: n/a
Literary Agent: n/a
activist-playwright. Born in Dallas, TX
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(And) We Own The Night(And) We Own The Night
Synopsis:
Takes its title from a poem by amiri Baraka, which also serves as an epigraph to the play. a romanticized view of the black revolution, in which a young black militant, dying from wounds that he has received in a race war, kills his own mother-portrayed as a symbol of the black matriarch and the "White man's nigger"- in order to assert his black manhood and his belief in a new value system for blacks which must be brought about by any means necessary, even the destruction of one's own family
Notes:
Subtitled "a Play of Blackness."
1st Produced:
Spirit House Movers and Players, Newark, NJ 1977
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1st Published:
in Black Fire (Jones & Neal, 1968 -
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Genre:
agitprop melodrama One act
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