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Understanding Suzan-Lori Parks / Jennifer Larson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Larson, Jennifer, 1977-
- Series:
- Understanding contemporary American literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parks, Suzan-Lori--Criticism and interpretation.
- Parks, Suzan-Lori.
- African Americans in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (174 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, SC : University of South Carolina Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- These essays suggest an approach to all genres of literature and blend creativity, form, culture, and history into a revisionary aesthetic that allows for no identity or history to remain fixed, with Parks arguing that in order to be relevant they must all be dynamic and democratic.
- Contents:
- Understanding Suzan-Lori Parks
- "Three-ness" and "the space in between": Imperceptible mutabilities in the third kingdom and Death of the last black man in the whole entire world
- "Deliberate calculation" in money, sex, and black plays: Venus
- What "able" and "angel" mean to a welfare mother: In the blood
- Folding and unfolding history, or identity fabrication: The Lincoln plays
- As we advance living: Getting mother's body
- "This film has been modified from its original version": Girl 6 and Their eyes were watching God
- The revisionary revised: essays and 365 days/365 plays.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283706483
- 1283706482
- 9781611172379
- 1611172373
- OCLC:
- 819390844
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