The New Yorker on Soho Rep.’s AN OCTOROON and “Reading Racist Literature”

Outside view of the Theatre for a New Audience

The New Yorker staff writer Elif Batuman examines how we interact with the historical texts with uneasy themes, focusing on the dialogue between Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s AN OCTOROON and Dion Boucicault’s THE OCTOROON.

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