num_pages: 28
description: A Black woman awakens in a phantasmagoric rooming house where she is visited by the Duchess of Hapsburg, Queen Victoria, Patrice Lumumba and Jesus Christ. Only she and Lumumba are not dressed in white; she has a white fixation and wants to become whiter and whiter. She harangues against her father who gave her a jungle strain and then sold out to white harlotry, dreams of returning to Africa to save the continent, and hangs herself amid swirling conflicts and desires, a victim of a nightmare world.
language: English
title: Funnyhouse of a Negro
titlecomplete: Funnyhouse of a Negro
genres: Theatre, Drama, Classics, Plays, Race, Read For School, School, 20th Century, Fiction, African American Literature
ratings_count: 404
publisher: Samuel French, Inc.