Fires in the mirror : Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and other identities / Anna Deavere Smith ; with a foreword by Cornel West.
Smith, Anna Deavere.
1993
PS3569.M465 F56 1993 (Mapit)
On loan from General Collection, due 25. Sep 2024

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Title Fires in the mirror : Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and other identities / Anna Deavere Smith ; with a foreword by Cornel West.
Author Smith, Anna Deavere.
Edition 1st Anchor books ed.
ISBN 9780385470148 (paperback)
0385470142 (paperback)
Published New York : Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1993.
Language English
Description lx, 141 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Call Number PS3569.M465 F56 1993
Dewey Decimal Classification 812/.54
Summary Smith's off-Broadway play is as much a commentary on current racial tensions as it is a work of drama. Award-winning writer and solo performer Smith derived her scripts from interviews with people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots.
"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."--Publisher's description.
Available in Other Form Fires in the mirror.
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Foreword / Cornel West
Introduction
Crown Heights conflict: Background information
Crown Heights, Brooklyn: Chronology
Characters
Production history
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