Volume III Issue II April-June 2023

Name of Author : Mr. M Nallakurumban

Title of the paper : The Intersection of Race and Class in Bruce Norris Clybourne Park

Abstract: Bruce Norris is an emerging contemporary playwright who is indeed one of the greatest writers of America today. He is well known for his unflinching satirical new plays which are often targeting the hypocrisy of American middle class society. Clybourne Park is based on Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun 1959. He smartly uses the classical drama, A Raisin in the Sun to tackle the enduring topic of race and class. In American society, the issues of race and social class are entwined together like a chain of DNA. One cannot have an honest discussion on race without looking at the equally important issues of class since the two are often avoided because these types of issues make people uncomfortable, and there are many people in American society who have been unable to escape the double jeopardy of being born in African American. Bruce Norris successfully portrays the characters and the dialogues of the people in a simple and yet powerful means of putting across the message.

Keywords : Race, Social Class, African American

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Page No. : 94-96