Suzan-Lori Parks

by Geis, Deborah R.

• ISBN13: 9780472069460
• ISBN10: 0472069462
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-30
• Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr

Summary

Suzan-Lori Parks is one of America's most distinctive playwrights. In 2007 her creation 365 Plays/365 Days was produced in more than seven hundred theaters around the world. She has been named one of Time magazine's "100 Innovators for the Next New Wave" and is a recipient of the MacArthur Award. A former student of James Baldwin, Parks is a prolific author with novels, screenplays, and even a musical to her credit, but she is best known for her plays. Works such as Topdog/Underdog, In the Blood, Venus, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, and The America Play have been widely produced and have won the highest honors (including the Pulitzer Prize and two Obies), but to date, books on Parks have been scarce.

Author Biography

Deborah R. Geis is Associate Professor of English at DePauw University

Table of Contents

Introduction: Under the Piano and All That Jazz: (Biography, Influences, Themes, Style)	p. 1
Elements of Style: Early Plays: (Betting on the Dust Commander, Pickling, Devotees in the Garden of Love)	p. 23
Choral Explorations of Race and Politics: (Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom and The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World)	p. 44
Anatomizing Venus	p. 75
Resurrecting Lincoln: (The America Play and Topdog/Underdog)	p. 97
The "Red Letter" Plays: (In the Blood and Fucking A)	p. 126
365 Plays, "New Black Math," and Other Media	p. 141
List of Premieres	p. 167
Works Cited	p. 169
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