Nurturing and murderous mothers in Suzan-Lori Parks's In the Blood and Fucking A.
| Publisher | American Drama Institute |
| Publication | American Drama |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 1061-0057 |
| Issues per Year | 2 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Published | 2007-01-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Verna A. Foster |
| Person | Works | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Person | Works | Suzan-Lori Parks |
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Suzan-Lori Parks has created two Hesters. 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, a character who cherishes her child. However, the plays also allude to Medea, who kills her own children as an act of vengeance against their father, and to mothers in slave narratives--exemplified by Sethe in Toni Morrison's Beloved--who kill their children to save them from a worse fate. The complex genealogy or matrilineage of Suzan-Lori Parks's two Hesters against which contemporary audiences are...
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