Suzan-Lori Parks: A Casebook

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.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
List of contributors	p. xi
Chronology	p. xiii
Introduction: Perceptible Mutabilities - The Many Plays of Suzan-Lori Parks/The Many Suzan-Lori Parks of Plays	p. xvii
Figures, Speech and Form in Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom	p. 1
Strange Legacy: The history plays of Suzan-Lori Parks	p. 18
Choral Compassion: In the Blood and Venus	p. 29
The 'fun that I had': The theatrical gendering of Suzan-Lori Parks's 'figures'	p. 48
Language as Protagonist in In the Blood	p. 61
Who's Thuh Man?! Historical melodrama and the performance of masculinity in Topdog/Underdog	p. 73
Re-enacting: metatheatre in thuh plays of Suzan-Lori Parks	p. 89
Digging Out of the Pigeonhole: African-American representation in the plays of Suzan-Lori Parks	p. 106
It's an Oberammergau Thing: An interview with Suzan-Lori Parks	p. 124
Selected Reading	p. 141
Index	p. 147
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