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Wanted: Debt or Alive in Suzan-Lori Parks's FA




List of AuthorsGhasemi M

PublisherSAGE PUBLICATIONS INC

Publication year2016

JournalJournal of Black Studies

Journal name in sourceJOURNAL OF BLACK STUDIES

Journal acronymJ BLACK STUD

Volume number47

Issue number8

Start page822

End page845

Number of pages24

ISSN0021-9347

DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021934716653345


Abstract
I approach Suzan-Lori Parks's play Fucking A from the perspectives of postmodern drama and show how the discourse of postmodernism enables Parks to make intertextual links with some other literary works in order to reinvent the past and address a number of social ills and historical scars in the present. I also explore a number of key preoccupations of postmodern aesthetics, which contribute to the creation of indeterminacies in the play and argue how the creation of indeterminacies enables the playwright to increase incredulity toward a number of dominant metanarratives-manifesting themselves in the form of ruling economic, social, cultural, and political systems. Furthermore, I show how Parks raises the issue of African American history and imprints it from a fresh perspective to reshape identities for African Americans in her neo-slave narrative.


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