An Octoroon

Name: An Octoroon
Author: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Jacobs-Jenkins

by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Jacobs-Jenkins

Postmodern satire deconstructing racist melodrama and American theater history

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Jacobs-Jenkins

American playwright who interrogates the history and aesthetics of American theater itself through works of radical formal intelligence. An Octoroon remounted a 19th-century melodrama about slavery to explode contemporary racial discourse; Gloria examined ambition and violence in a New York magazine office. He won the MacArthur Genius Award in 2016.

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