In the Blood (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Play
- Genres: Drama
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Fathers, Literacy, Bridges
One of two plays by Parks coming from Hawthorne's classic novel The Scarlet Letter, In the Blood introduces us to Hester, a woman of the street who has five children by five different fathers. Hester lives in a state of illiteracy while claiming as home for herself and her children the underside of a bridge. She is offered ineffectual help by her closest friend, Amiga Gringa, by a social worker, by a roaming medical doctor, and by an evangelical street preacher. Help is seemingly at hand when Chili, the father of her first “treasure,” Jabber, appears and offers her a...
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