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M. Butterfly
by David Henry Hwang
by David Henry Hwang
Aubrey's review
bookshelves: 5-star, reviewed, rage-against-the-sexuality
Nov 23, 11
bookshelves: 5-star, reviewed, rage-against-the-sexuality
Read from November 21 to 23, 2011
Now here's a play with depth. Here you have your racial stereotypes, your political stereotypes, your gender stereotypes, all coupled in a massive sexual stereotyping for the ages. A misunderstanding so great and maintained for so long requires a massive amount of explanation, an intro to which the playwright has thankfully provided us at the end of his work. The language was a bit coarse for my tastes, so my rating originally wasn't five stars. But the amount of thought and discussion this piece provokes is definitely better than five stars. It delves unflinchingly into sexual deviations and fetishes that the public would be better off being aware of, as the repercussions of these are more rampant than one would think. One can only hope that this becomes required reading in the future at some level of education. It may not require as much digging for meaning as most books, but it will definitely broaden one’s mind in ways that are necessary in this day and age.
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