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Fires in the Mirror

By Smith, Anna Deavere

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Fires in the Mirror

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Derived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots, Fires In The Mirror is as distinguished a work of commentary on black-white tensions as it is a work of drama. In August 1991 simmering tensions in the racially polarized Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood of Crown Heights exploded into riots after a black boy was killed by a car in a rabbi's motorcade and a Jewish student was slain by blacks in retaliation. Fires in the Mirror is dramatist Anna Deavere Smith's stunning exploration of the events and emotions leading up to and following the Crown Heights conflict. Through her portrayals of more than two dozen Crown eights adversaries, victims, and eyewitnesses, using verbatim excerpts from their observations derived from interviews she conducted, Smith provides a brilliant, Rashoman-like documentary portrait of contemporary ethnic turmoil.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
208
Release Date:
1993-09-01
Publication Date:
1993-09-01
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0385470142
ISBN13:
9780385470148
Weight:
181 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
201 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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