Quest/ion of Identities in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Post-revolutionary Drama

Quest/ion of Identities in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Post-revolutionary Drama

Inspired both by the Black Arts Movement and the postmodern revolt against it, Parks has concentrated on crafting provocative plays that represent and emphasize the concerns and quest/ion of identities for African Americans. In the present essay, I argue that Parks is interested in questioning the f...

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identity
stereotype
Suzan-Lori Parks
post-revolutionary theater
the Black Arts Movement
postmodern drama
postdramatic theatre
language complexity
fluidity
indeterminacies
the media
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:ejas_11613 https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.11613 urn:doi:10.4000/ejas.11613 https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/11613 2016-08-11T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/fmj2 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Quest/ion of Identities in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Post-revolutionary Drama European journal of American studies European Association for American Studies info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1991-9336 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas Ghasemi, Mehdi identity stereotype Suzan-Lori Parks post-revolutionary theater the Black Arts Movement postmodern drama postdramatic theatre language complexity fluidity indeterminacies the media Inspired both by the Black Arts Movement and the postmodern revolt against it, Parks has concentrated on crafting provocative plays that represent and emphasize the concerns and quest/ion of identities for African Americans. In the present essay, I argue that Parks is interested in questioning the former constructed racial boundaries of blackness and revolutionary ideologies of the Black Arts Movement without turning a blind eye to the concerns of African American community. I show that Parks attempts to escape the traditions of the Black Arts Movement, which depended on conventions of narrative realism and straightforward language to transmit its revolutionary messages. My goal is to show how Parks’s plays make use of postmodern aesthetics and paradigms to transform the conventional features of playwriting, create indeterminacies toward dominant systems of oppression and raise the quest/ion of identities for African Americans in a post-revolutionary manner.
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topic identity
stereotype
Suzan-Lori Parks
post-revolutionary theater
the Black Arts Movement
postmodern drama
postdramatic theatre
language complexity
fluidity
indeterminacies
the media
spellingShingle identity
stereotype
Suzan-Lori Parks
post-revolutionary theater
the Black Arts Movement
postmodern drama
postdramatic theatre
language complexity
fluidity
indeterminacies
the media
Ghasemi, Mehdi
Quest/ion of Identities in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Post-revolutionary Drama
description Inspired both by the Black Arts Movement and the postmodern revolt against it, Parks has concentrated on crafting provocative plays that represent and emphasize the concerns and quest/ion of identities for African Americans. In the present essay, I argue that Parks is interested in questioning the former constructed racial boundaries of blackness and revolutionary ideologies of the Black Arts Movement without turning a blind eye to the concerns of African American community. I show that Parks attempts to escape the traditions of the Black Arts Movement, which depended on conventions of narrative realism and straightforward language to transmit its revolutionary messages. My goal is to show how Parks’s plays make use of postmodern aesthetics and paradigms to transform the conventional features of playwriting, create indeterminacies toward dominant systems of oppression and raise the quest/ion of identities for African Americans in a post-revolutionary manner.
author Ghasemi, Mehdi
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title Quest/ion of Identities in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Post-revolutionary Drama
title_short Quest/ion of Identities in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Post-revolutionary Drama
title_full Quest/ion of Identities in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Post-revolutionary Drama
title_fullStr Quest/ion of Identities in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Post-revolutionary Drama
title_full_unstemmed Quest/ion of Identities in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Post-revolutionary Drama
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