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History Plays as/or Counterhistory Plays – A Study of Suzan-Lori Parks’s Major Plays
Alaotsikko: A Study of Suzan-Lori Parks’s Major Plays
Tekijät: Mehdi Ghasemi
Kustantaja: Department of English, University of Botswana
Kustannuspaikka: Gaborone
Julkaisuvuosi: 2014
Journal: Marang: Journal of Language and Literature
Lehden akronyymi: Marang
Vuosikerta: 24
Numero: April-May
Aloitussivu: 123
Lopetussivu: 136
Sivujen määrä: 14
eISSN: 1816-7659
Verkko-osoite: http://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.
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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