Les Blancs is Lorraine Hansberry's unfinished final play, set in a colonial African mission amid rising tensions between white settlers and indigenous people.
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Les Blancs is Lorraine Hansberry's unfinished final play, set in a colonial African mission amid rising tensions between white settlers and indigenous people.
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Best American play of 1970, Les Blancs prophetically confronts the hope and tragedy of Africa in revolution. The setting is a white Christian mission in a colony about to explode. The time is that hour of reckoning when no one the guilty nor the innocent can evade the consequences of white colonialism and imperatives of black liberation. Tshembe Matoseh, the English educated son of a chief, has come home to bury his father. He finds his teenage brother a near alcoholic and his older brother a pr...
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Sexual content
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No sexual content depicted.
Violence & gore
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Scenes of racially motivated violence, including graphic depictions of blood and conflict central to the plot.
Profanity
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No profanity depicted.
Substance use
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No substance use depicted.
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQIA+ representation.
Religious content
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Set in a Christian mission with clergy characters and references to religious rituals.
Magic & witchcraft
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No witchcraft or occult elements.
Occult / demonology
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No evidence found in available sources.
Political content
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Defining themes of imperialism, racism, colonialism, and anti-colonial resistance in an African setting.
Self-harm / suicide
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No self-harm or suicide depicted.
Abuse & suffering
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Pervasive depictions of systemic racism, colonial oppression, cruelty, and suffering under imperialism.
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