Suzan-Lori Parks
Subtitle: a casebook
By: edited by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr and Alycia Smith-Howard.
Contributors: Wetmore, Kevin J., 1969-; Smith Howard, Alycia.
Series: Casebooks on modern dramatists
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780415973816
Subjects: Parks, Suzan-Lori -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: The first major study of this unique voice in contemporary drama. Suzan-Lori Parks confirmed herself as one of the most exciting and successful playwrights of her generation when winning the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, making her the only African American woman to win the award.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chronology / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr; title: Introduction : perceptible mutabilities / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr; title: Figure, form, and language in Imperceptible mutabilities in the third kingdom / Shawn Marie Garrett; title: Strange legacy : the history plays of Suzan-Lori Parks / Heidi Holder; title: Choral compassion : In the blood and Venus / Harvey Young; title: The "fun that I had" : the theatrical gendering of Suzan-Lori Parks's "figures" / Barbara Ozieblo; title: Language as protagonist in In the blood / Leonard Berkman; title: "Who's thuh man?" : historical melodrama and the performance of masculinity in Topdog/Underdog / Jason Bush; title: Re-enacting : metatheatre in the plays of Suzan-Lori Parks / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr; title: Digging out of the pigeonhole : African American representation in the plays of Suzan-Lori Parks / Andrea Goto; title: "It's an Oberammergau thing!" : an interview with Suzan-Lori Parks / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.