Fires in the Mirror
Fires in the Mirror

Author: Anna Deavere Smith

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2015-01-21

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1101911298

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Derived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots, Fires In The Mirror is as distinguished a work of commentary on black-white tensions as it is a work of drama. In August 1991 simmering tensions in the racially polarized Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood of Crown Heights exploded into riots after a black boy was killed by a car in a rabbi's motorcade and a Jewish student was slain by blacks in retaliation. Fires in the Mirror is dramatist Anna Deavere Smith's stunning exploration of the events and emotions leading up to and following the Crown Heights conflict. Through her portrayals of more than two dozen Crown eights adversaries, victims, and eyewitnesses, using verbatim excerpts from their observations derived from interviews she conducted, Smith provides a brilliant, Rashoman-like documentary portrait of contemporary ethnic turmoil.

Shattering Hamlet's Mirror
Shattering Hamlet's Mirror

Author: Marvin Carlson

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2016-05-12

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 0472119850

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Exploring the historical antecedents and mimetic dimensions of "Theater of the Real"