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History Plays as/or Counterhistory Plays – A Study of Suzan-Lori Parks’s Major Plays




AlaotsikkoA Study of Suzan-Lori Parks’s Major Plays

TekijätMehdi Ghasemi

KustantajaDepartment of English, University of Botswana

KustannuspaikkaGaborone

Julkaisuvuosi2014

JournalMarang: Journal of Language and Literature

Lehden akronyymiMarang

Vuosikerta24

NumeroApril-May

Aloitussivu123

Lopetussivu136

Sivujen määrä14

eISSN1816-7659

Verkko-osoitehttp://www.ub.bw/ojs/index.php/marang/article/viewFile/263/95


Tiivistelmä

Innovative and unconventional, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks is passionate to rewrite the de-emphasized or dismissed history of African Americans in recorded history. Owing to this fact, a number of her plays are referred to as „the history plays.‟ This essay attempts to approach a number of plays by Parks from the perspective of Michel Foucault‟s implications of „history‟ and „counterhistory‟ to determine whether Parks‟s plays are history or counterhistory plays. To this end, the essay first cites Foucault‟s definitions of history and counterhistory and then examines a number of literary devices Parks has employed in her plays to answer the question.



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