Analysis Of An Octoroon

Branden-Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon and David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly are both sophisticated works centered around sociocultural problems in their respective settings. In An Octoroon, Branden-Jacobs Jenkins presents his own adaptation of Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon critiquing Boucicault’s depiction of race and identity on the plantation Terrebonne in Louisiana. The play is centered around the sale of the plantation and a girl who is one eighth black by descent, an octoroon girl named Zoe who is

The Octoroon, classified as a slavery play, is a drama by Don Boucicault, that was performed by Queens College students and directed by professionals from the theater industry was a drama of a plantation life in Louisiana and miscegenation back in the day. The script for this play is divided into five acts and performed in two and half hours. Light turns on, and the first scene setting is a view of the plantation Terrebonne, during an unspecified year. Perhaps a time of slavery, Pre-civil war. Giving

and white-biased perspective in Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon does not hold up to modern conceptions of race in America, the play only remains useful for historical examination; Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, in his adaptation of the work, An Octoroon, examines the historical implications presented in Boucicault’s original work and transforms the story into one more appropriate for the modern era. Boucicault offers his perspective in The Octoroon from a distance, choosing to weave his message through

"-- we are all complicit and we all carry a certain responsibility for America's original sin: racism." -- David Bedrick, The Huffington Post, 10 April 2015 "Half-breed”, “Mulatto”, “Octoroon.” All of these terms at one point served to describe individuals of mixed race, particularly African and Caucasian. The controversy of interracialism has transcended generations, as well as cultures. It is a subject that, historically, has held the potential to incite savage racial discrimination

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