Parks, Suzan-Lori - Elizabeth Brown-Guillory (essay date 2002)
Elizabeth Brown-Guillory (essay date 2002)
SOURCE: Brown-Guillory, Elizabeth. “Reconfiguring History: Migration, Memory, and (Re)Membering in Suzan-Lori Parks's Plays.” In Southern Women Playwrights: New Essays in Literary History and Criticism, edited by Robert L. McDonald and Linda Rohrer Paige, pp. 183-97. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002.
[In the following essay, Brown-Guillory examines Parks's use of repetition, revision, and relocation to create an African-American historical identity. Brown-Guillory also notes that many of the themes of the tetralogy Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom are further developed in Parks's later plays.]
Since the mid-1980s, the two-time Obie Award-winning Suzan-Lori Parks has revolutionized Black women's theater tradition with her plays. In some ways, Parks's plays resemble the mutative and vertiginous stage poetry of Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro...
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