Parks, Suzan-Lori - Alice Rayner and Harry J. Elam, Jr. (essay date December 1994)
Alice Rayner and Harry J. Elam, Jr. (essay date December 1994)
SOURCE: Rayner, Alice, and Harry J. Elam, Jr. “Unfinished Business: Reconfiguring History in Suzan-Lori Parks's The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World.” Theatre Journal 46, no. 4 (December 1994): 447-61.
[In the following essay, Rayner and Elam survey the methods Parks employs in The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World “not only to challenge and re-write history, but to right history.”]
The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World by Suzan-Lori Parks burst onto the American stage in September of 1990. Critics hailed the play as a work of “astounding power,”1 and as a “brilliant compression of black rage and hope.”2 Parks was crowned “theatre's vibrant new voice,”3 an “indigenous theatrical talent” and “the most promising playwright of the year.”...
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