Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?

9 best books like Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers? (Lorraine Hansberry): Zone One, Jazz, Black Skin, White Masks, Regarding the Pain of Others, Mythologies, Fefu and Her Friends, Min kamp 2, Min kamp 4, Min kamp 6

Zone One

Author	Colson Whitehead
ISBN	0385528078

In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead.

Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuild­ing civilization under...

Jazz

Author	Toni Morrison
ISBN	0452269652

In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe’s wife, Violet, attacks the girl’s corpse. This passionate, profound story...

Black Skin, White Masks

Author	Frantz Fanon
ISBN	0802150845

Black Skins White Masks is a scary book. In it Fanon discusses the black man’s experience in a white world; he ironically, and justly, creates an image of the world through a black lens, so to speak.

“The N**** enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike...

Regarding the Pain of Others

Author	Susan Sontag
ISBN	0141012374

Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today. How does the spectacle of the sufferings of others (via television or newspapers) affect us? Are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by...

Mythologies

Author	W.B. Yeats
ISBN	0684826216

Banshees and faeries, demons and curses, village ghosts and mystic poets work their Gaelic magic in this enthralling collection of supernatural tales from the pen of William Butler Yeats. Based on Irish country beliefs, traditions, and folk tales, the stories were first published at the height of...

Fefu and Her Friends

Author

María Irene Fornés

Maria Irene Fornes, Fefu and Her Friends (PAJ Publications, 1978)

Okay, I will admit it right up front: I have absolutely no idea what is going on in the last act of this play, and I have done absolutely no digging on the web in order to uncover any random “what does this mean?” threads that might...

Min kamp 2

Author

Karl Ove Knausgård

Having left his first wife, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, Sweden, where he leads a solitary existence. He strikes up a deep friendship with another exiled Norwegian, a Nietzschean intellectual and boxing fanatic named Geir. He also tracks down Linda, whom he met at a writers' workshop a few...

Min kamp 4

Author	Karl Ove Knausgård
ISBN	8249507142

Karl Ove Knausgårds tredje roman innebærer en enorm litterær satsning, og er en stor bok i mer enn én forstand: Min kamp blir utgitt som seks romaner. Første, andre og tredje bok utkom høsten 2009. Fjerde, femte og sjette bok utkommer våren 2010. Etter tre år på gymnaset i Kristiansand reiser...

Min kamp 6

Author

Karl Ove Knausgård

I det anmelderroste selvbiografiske romanværk, Min kamp, udforsker Karl Ove Knausgård nådeløst og selvudleverende sit eget liv, sine ambitioner og svagheder, sin usikkerhed og tvivl, sine relationer til venner og kærester, kone og børn, mor og far.

Det er et værk, hvor livet beskrives...