I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.
— Lorraine Hansberry, born on this date in 1930
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ReplyDeleteI agree to a great extent, BUT...how do we avoid narrowly focusing on a few very specific elements and then make a leap into so-called 'truthful identity', which then may be no more than an untruthful or at least distorted generalisation?
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