5/20/2023 0 Comments In the blood by suzan lori parks![]() ![]() The history of Literature is in question” (4). “So much of the discussion today in literary criticism,” Parks explains, “concerns how the African- American literary contribution should be incorporated into the canon. Parks also questions the place of African-American women in literature. ![]() In these three plays, Parks places African or African-American women center stage in order to question representations of women’s bodies as possessions, as objects of desire, and as bloody biological battlefields. Venus, in its depiction of a historical character, has much in common with the earlier history plays however, it serves also as a transition to In the Blood and Fucking A. Parks claims, “Through each line of text I’m rewriting the Time Line-creating history where it is and always was but has not yet been divined.” 2īeginning in 1996 with the production of Venus, Parks’s plays began to explore new directions. 1 These nonrealistic, experimental plays feature characters that are alienated from the history that they (and Parks) revisit, deconstruct, resurrect, and reconstruct. ![]() The early plays of Suzan-Lori Parks often are referred to as “the history plays” in which the playwright reconstructs historical events to fill a lack or hole in history caused by the exclusion of any African-American presence. ![]()
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