The Alienated Clara: intersectionality perspectives in Adrienne Kennedy’s The Owl Answers

• Main Authors: Jabboury, Latifah Ismaeel, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Anita Harris Satkunananthan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11235/1/13953-51474-1-PB.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11235/; http://ejournal.ukm.my/akademika/issue/view/860
• Institution: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Critical works on Adrienne Kennedy’s The Owl Answers have been limited to the domains of surrealism and to the frame of literary criticism which situate Clara, the protagonist of The Owl Answers within a psychological context. Many critics find that the play is a portrait of a black woman who is sea...