Hlavní hrdinkou je černošská služka Mildred, která večer po práci hovoří se svou kamarádkou Marge o všem možném, o hudbě, mužích, stáří, cestování, zaměstnavatelích...
Alice Childress Knihy
Alice Childressová byla americká dramatička a spisovatelka, která se věnovala psaní o životech těch, jimž společnost nedává moc šancí. Její díla, často zasazená do období světových válek, se zaměřují na složité mezilidské vztahy, rasové napětí a zakázané lásky. Childressová mistrně proplétala syrový realismus s hlubokou lidskostí, čímž vytvářela působivé a provokativní příběhy. Její jedinečný hlas a odhodlání ukázat „nemající“ ve světě „majících“ z ní činí nezaměnitelnou autorku na americké literární scéně.
"Following the rehearsal process for a new Broadway production of an anti-lynching play, Alice Childress's wry and moving look at racism, identity, and ego in the world of New York theater opened to acclaim off-Broadway in 1955. When Wiletta, a Black actress and veteran of the stage, challenges the play's stereotypical portrayal of the Black characters, unsettling biases come to the forefront and reveal the ways so-called progressive art can be used to uphold racist attitudes and practices. Trouble in Mind is a prescient work that remains starkly relevant to the dynamics in the present-day theater world"--
Like One of the Family
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Like One of the Family, which provides historical context for Kathryn Stockett's novel, The Help, is comprised of a series of conversations between Mildred, a black domestic, and her friend Marge. They create a vibrant picture of the life of a black working woman in New York in the 1950s. Rippling with satire and humor, Mildred’s outspoken accounts capture vividly her white employers’ complacency and condescension—and startled reactions to a maid who speaks her mind. As Mildred declares to a patronizing employer that she is not just like one of the family, or explains to Marge how a tricky employer has created a system of “half days off” to cheat her help, we gain a glimpse not only of one woman’s day-to-day struggle, but of her previous ache of racial oppression. A domestic who refuses to exchange dignity for pay, Mildred is an inspiring conversationalist, a dragon slayer in a segregated world. The conversations in the book were first published in Freedom, the newspaper edited by Paul Robeson, and later in the Baltimore Afro-American. The book was originally published in the 1950s by in Brooklyn–based Independence Press, and Beacon Press brought out a new edition of it in 1986 with an introduction by the literary and cultural critic Trudier Harris.
The life of a thirteen-year-old Harlem youth on his way to becoming a confirmed heroin addict is seen from his viewpoint and from that of several people around him
