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...brown-skinned people to beat up, spun his anger into art. While other children of immigrants tried to create an identity through cast-iron faith, Kureishi forged his through rebellious fiction. His works were a mosh pit of high and low Western culture, with knowing references to Wittgenstein and Genet, ecstasy raves and gay sex. Suddenly, Asian Britain wasn't just about corner shops, victimhood and longing for Bombay, but anarchy...
...regular diarrhea attacks, especially after the rainy season when sewage seeps into water supplies. "If the students get sick," says teacher Tesfaye Birhanu, "they can't learn their lessons and think freely." Until recently, the four toilets shared by Gafft's 1,266 pupils were filthy, and girls like Genet Solomon avoided using them. "Before, I would get sick once a month," says Solomon, 12. Then the school built three simple pit latrines in cinder-block cubicles. A sanitation club began encouraging students to wash their hands after using the toilet and before meals, a simple way of reducing...
...know something of the work of French dramatist Jean Genet, whose plays are usually associated with Antonin Artaud’s theater of cruelty, and of the style of director Jess R. Burkle ’06, whose spring production, “Knock,” was lauded for its dark comedy. However, I wasn’t prepared for the abject violence of this new script, nor the calculation with which Burkle’s cast and crew approached it. It never lifted my spirits, but its intelligence and precision were overwhelming...
...almost literally) suffocating interactions of two maids, who yearn for freedom from the Ancien Régime, embodied by the tyrannical “Madame” (Laurel Holland ’07). Apart from revolutionary ideas, the Papin sisters—famous 1930s French murderers—inspired Genet, just as they did in the works of Sartre and Lacan...
...play sees slaves and masters contort the roles they normally take. However, “Maids” goes deeper that simply showing a character mix-up. Channeling Immanuel Kant, Genet shows how the maids’ oppression exists only with their permission; so long as they fight each other instead of Madame, they will remain in chains...