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TRIPMASTER MONKEY: HIS FAKE BOOK by Maxine Hong Kingston...
This play, based on the story of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial, treats the subject of teaching evolution and creationism in schools. If you took Justice last semester, you saw a portion of the Scopes trial in class--if you were there. If not, you can see the whole thing this weekend at Lowell House in a modern rendition of a philosophical dispute that continues to this...
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book...
KINGSTON'S racy, invigorating style makes Tripmaster Monkey more than a retelling of The Dharma Bums with an Asian-American twist, more than yet another Less Than Zero tale of disillusionment. Her style is clever and humorous, not ponderous or heavy-handed. She meanders in and out of first-person narration, and dialogue eases its way between Wittman's thoughts and actions...
Plot, however, is not her strong suit, given that alientation has been the key theme in every major modern work since existentialism. What Wittman does and says is not original. Even his dream--of writing an epic play that would weave together Chinese novels and tales about the famed monkey who brings back Buddhist scripts from India--is based on others' thoughts. And nothing really happens in the book; the drama is practically irrelevant...