Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: The Life in the Work -- 1. Adrienne Kennedy: An Interview -- 2. People Who Led to My Plays: Adrienne Kennedy's Autobiography -- 3. The Life of the Work: A Preliminary Sketch -- PART II: Intersecting Dramatic Traditions -- 4. Kennedy's Travelers in the American and African Continuum -- 5. Diverse Angles of Vision: Two Black Women Playwrights -- 6. Adrienne Kennedy and the First Avant-Garde -- 7. Adrienne Kennedy through the Lens of German Expressionism -- 8. Surrealism as Mimesis: A Director's Guide to Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro -- PART III: Changing Boundaries: Interpretive Approaches -- 9. Locating Adrienne Kennedy: Prefacing the Subject -- 10. Mimesis in Syncopated Time: Reading Adrienne Kennedy -- 11. (Hetero)Sexual Terrors in Adrienne Kennedy's Early Plays -- 12. Kennedy's Body Politic: The Mulatta, Menses, and the Medusa -- 13. "A Spectator Watching My Life": Adrienne Kennedy's A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White -- 14. Critical Reflections: Adrienne Kennedy, the Writer, the Work -- PART IV: Performance as a Collaborative Art -- 15. An Interview with Michael Kahn -- 16. An Interview with Gaby Rodgers -- 17. An Interview with Gerald Freedman -- 18. An Interview with Billie Allen -- 19.Developing a Concert for the Spoken Voice: Solo Voyages, and an Interview with Robbie McCauley -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.