Suzan-Lori Parks won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2002, becoming the first black female playwright to be awarded the prestigious award. After winning the prize, she told Angeli R. Rasbury on the Wo...
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In the following essay, Garrett explores recurrent themes in Parks's plays and illustrates Parks's use of repetition, lampooning, language, and visual cues to highlight political, histor...
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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...
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In the following essay, Solomon studies the role of language and communication in the four plays of Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom and investigates the political and racial overtones ...
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In the following essay, Diamond analyzes Parks's experiments with language, casting, and non-linear time in her plays, particularly Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom.
The poetic i...
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In the following essay, Ryan explores the sexual, racial, and political overtones in The America Play and considers Parks's use of language, repetition, and absences to subvert white-based and ...
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In the following essay, Elam and Rayner detail the process that the characters in The America Play use to replace the “hole” in their African-American history, culture, and identities wi...
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In the following essay, Elam compares the growing multi-ethnicity of American culture with the diversity and the identity issues of the characters in Cherrie Moraga's The Hungry Woman and Parks...
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Suzan-Lori Parks
