Anna Deavere-Smith in a world of injustice and war

PRESENTATION — APPETIZER

Explicit Racial & Racist Bias

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/explicit-racial-racist-bias-783eaf9f7046

Anna Deavere Smith deserves a long train trip to discover her theater, a direct and beautiful heritage from slavery promising a fair prominent place to Black creativity in the USA soon if not already in the making. The USA has reached this stage when white criminals, police or not, who kill Black people with no reason at all except their racism are convicted in court to heavy prison sentences.

To approach a play like “House Arrest” requires that we take one or two excerpts and that we make a fine commentary of these excerpts to show:

1- How they work linguistically.

2- How they work on the historical level (of the USA, of Blacks in the USA, of slavery, and all the forms of segregation that followed and are still present).

3- How they work at the cultural level (cultural identification of African-Americans in the US which necessarily involves the recognition of the PTSS of slavery).

4- How they work at the psychic, psychological, psycholinguistic, and cognitive levels.