[DOC] [TLE] Nurturing and murderous mothers in Suzan-Lori Parks's In the Blood ... [PAR] Hester La Negrita in In the Blood and Hester Smith in Fucking A draw on and 
reimagine Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, ... explore 
what Adrienne Rich in her groundbreaking book Of Woman Born refers to as "the 
... Hester's son Boy, now known as Monster, was imprisoned for stealing food; his
... [DOC] [TLE] In the Blood (play) - Wikipedia [PAR] In The Blood is a play written by Suzan-Lori Parks which premiered at The 
Joseph Papp Public Theater in 1999. Parks borrowed many aspects from 
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and wanted to create a play based on 
the novel. ... Hester, La Negrita- The main protagonist of the play, and mother of 
five bastard... [DOC] [TLE] Parks' In The Blood: An Image of a Black Woman Who Is More ... [PAR] Jun 1, 2012 ... Keywords: Black woman, Hester La Negrita, Slut, Social institutions, Poverty, 
Hypocrisy ... analyzing her play, In the Blood (1999)one of two plays known ... 
are both a retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter (1850). ... 
Hester La Negrita, the heroine, works insistently to establish a new. [DOC] [TLE] Suzan-Lori Parks - Doollee.com [PAR] Suzan-Lori's first novel Getting Mother's Body (Random House, 2003) is set in the 
west ... Mutabilities In the Third Kingdom In the Blood Neo-Futurists Meet Susan 
Lori .... the comma As the play is "inspired" by Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet 
Letter ... In this modern day riff on the Scarlet Letter, Hester La Negrita, a 
homeless... [DOC] [TLE] 1 The purpose of this study guide is to offer some background ... [PAR] the scope of the problem: Sixty percent of homeless women have children who 
live with ... destined to be a writer, beginning her first novel when only five years 
old. ... In 1999, Parks premiered IN THE BLOOD, the first of her two red letter 
plays, both based loosely on the life of Nathanial Hawthorne's heroine Hester 
Prynne. [DOC] [TLE] 16 Curtain Raiser.indd - The Theatre School at DePaul University [PAR] In the Blood, dramaturgy by Jeremy Martens and Madeline Kranz . ...... of the 
story, our heroine is Hester La Negrita, a black, homeless, single mother of five. [DOC] [TLE] On The Issues Magazine: Fall 2008: Whatever Happened to Nora ... [PAR] Ibsen reportedly pointed to a crumpled homeless woman sitting on a bench. ... 
Here Hester, La Negrita, lives with her five children, existing as best they can on 
the ... Like Hawthorne's hero, who dotes on her daughter Pearl, Parks's Hester 
tries to ... The real inspiration for In the Blood, in fact, seems to be Georg 
Bchner's... [DOC] [TLE] Performance: In the Blood, a play by Suzan-Lori Parks [PAR] Jan 26, 2012 ... In the Blood is the playwright's spin on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter 
in which the heroine Hester, persecuted for having a ... Parks' Hester, La Negrita, 
is a single mother entirely dependent on the kindness of .... a feature-length 
documentary about the middle-class homeless called yHomeless? [DOC] [TLE] Samantha Newcomb | DePaul University DeBlogs [PAR] The stories told on this stage are often adaptations of well-known books for kids, 
... This book guides the reader through preparation for the business of acting, and 
life. .... In the Blood by Susan-Lori Parks- in the Healy Theatre: ..... "Hester la 
Negrita is a homeless single mother of five who dreams of finding beauty and 
love... [DOC] [TLE] WOMANIST RESTORATIVE DRAMA: VIOLENCE, COMMUNITY ... [PAR] Aug 4, 2009 ... of black women playwrights who use drama as a tool of resistance and I suggest 
that ..... American fourth grade teacher) called the African American .... year old 
Patricia Cowan answered a call requesting a black actress to read scenes for ..... 
inspiration. ...... In the Blood's main character Hester La Negrita. [DOC]

Question: A homeless woman known as Hester La Negrita is the heroine of "In the Blood", inspired by this Hawthorne novel
Answer: The Scarlet Letter