Suzan-Lori Parks (eBook, ePUB)

A Casebook
Redaktion: Wetmore Jr, Kevin J.; Smith-Howard, Alycia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Suzan-Lori Parks confirmed herself as one of the most exciting and successful playwrights of her generation when her work Topdog/Underdog was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, making her the only African American woman to win the award. This volume seeks to provide a context for her work, with essays from major and emerging scholars addressing the importance of factors such as gender, ethnicity, language and history in plays from her first major work, Imperceptible Mutabilities of the Third Kingdom to the 365 Days / 365 Plays project. Contributors: Leonard Berkman, Jason Bush, Shawn Marie-Garrett, Andrea Goto, Heidi Holder, Barbara Ozieblo, Kevin J. Wetmore Jr and Harvey Young.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135871093
• Artikelnr.: 38244783

Autorenporträt

Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. is a professor of theatre at Loyola Marymount University. He is also a professional actor and director. Among several other books, he is the author of The Athenian Sun in an African Sky and Black Dionysus: Greek Tragedy and African American Theatre. He also researches and writes on Asian theatre, African theatre, and cross-cultural theatre. He is the director of the Comparative Drama Conference. Alycia Smith-Howard is an Assistant Professor at New York University in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where she is the Artistic Director of the Gallatin Arts Festival. She received both her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, and has taught at Mount Holyoke College, Trinity College and Berea College. Smith-Howard is an accomplished director, has published several articles, and is the book reviews editor for The New England Theatre Journal. She has two books in progress: a co-authored volume entitled Tennessee Williams A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life, Works and Times (Facts on File, 2004) and Shakespeare at The Other Place (Ashgate, 2004). A Fellow of the Folger Shakespeare Library her areas of teaching interest include Shakespeare studies, modern drama, feminist theatre aesthetics, directing, dramaturgy, performance studies, 19th Century studies, literature and drama of the south, cultural studies and gender studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Figure, Form and Language in Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third
Kingdom 2. Strange Legacy: The History Plays of Suzan-Lori Parks 3. Choral
Compassion: In the Blood and Venus 4. The "Fun that I had": The Theatrical
Gendering of Suzan-Lori Parks's "Figures" 5. Language as Protagonist in In
the Blood 6. "Who's Thuh Man?" Historical Melodrama and the Performance of
Masculinity in Topdog/Underdog 7. Re-Enacting: Metatheatre in the Plays of
Suzan-Lori Parks 8. Digging Out of the Pigeonhole: African American
Representation in the Plays of Suzan-Lori Parks 9. "It's an Oberammergau
Thing!" - An Interview with Suzan-Lori Parks