Parks, Suzan-Lori - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Basting, Anne Davis. Review of Venus, by Suzan-Lori Parks. Theatre Journal 49, no. 2 (May 1997): 223-25.

Provides a brief synopsis of Venus and expounds on the play's themes of captivity, desire, voyeurism, and the immediacy of the past.

Ben-Zvi, Linda. “‘Aroun the Worl’: The Signifyin(g) Theater of Suzan-Lori Parks.” In The Theatrical Gamut: Notes for a Post-Beckettian Stage, edited by Enoch Brater, pp. 189-208. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.

Focuses on Parks's use of language and symbolism to remediate historical inaccuracies and voids.

Bernard, Louise. “The Musicality of Language: Redefining History in Suzan-Lori Parks's The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World.” African American Review 31, no. 4 (winter 1997): 687-98.

Examines Parks's attempt in The Death of the Last Black Man in the...

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