Overview

An African-american girl dreams of establishing a heritage and imagines she is applying to bury her father in Westminster Cathedral. The chorus enters. Ann Boleyn, Shakespeare, and William the Conqueror scorn her: whoever heard of a black with such a heritage? Her father was white, she protests, and her mother was his family's cook. As a child she had to enter through the back door when she wanted to visit him. A companion piece to Kennedy's revolutionary Funnyhouse of a Negro.

Keywords

• Death
• Memory
• Black Experience
• Obie