Pearl Cleage: Flyin' west
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Cleage, Pearl
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Video recording of Georgia author Pearl Cleage speaking about her play Flyin' West (1992). She sits before several tall African sculptures. She wears a black shirt and faces forward. She begins by retelling the plot line of her play, in which a woman is nearly beaten to death by her male partner. The woman and her friends retaliates by poisoning the man's pie, which results in his death. The women then bury the man on the prairie and attend a dance. Cleage then discusses how she's never had anyone who has viewed the play tell her that her treatment of the man was too extreme. She finally states that she has communicated the idea of a woman's right to defend herself and her children to her audience in a somewhat transparent way.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia
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Digital Library of Georgia
