The Purple Flower

What is the setting of The Purple Flower by Marita Bonner?

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The Purple Flower is set in an allegorical time and place that represents the historical position of African Americans in the United States, The place is described in the stage directions as: "Might be here, there or anywhere--or even nowhere." This description indicates that the inequality that characterizes the status of the Us's in relation to the White Devils exists anywhere and everywhere m the world, although it is particularly concerned with black-white racial inequality in the United States.