A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Wanted: Debt or Alive in Suzan-Lori Parks's FA
Authors: Ghasemi M
Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Publication year: 2016
Journal: Journal of Black Studies
Journal name in source: JOURNAL OF BLACK STUDIES
Journal acronym: J BLACK STUD
Volume: 47
Issue: 8
First page : 822
Last page: 845
Number of pages: 24
ISSN: 0021-9347
DOI: https://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.
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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