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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Suzan-Lori Parks"”.
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The Traumatized/traumatizing Subject In Anna Deavere Smith, Suzan-Lori Parks, And August Wilson
… Subject in Anna Deavere Smith, Suzan-Lori Parks, and August Wilson</i> explores how drama, as a genre, is particularly suited for capturing aspects of trauma in ways that other genres cannot; this argument reinforces that trauma must be studied within the humanities, specifically …
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Seeking Release From the Armour of Dystonia as the Mother-Showman in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus
… playing the role of The Mother-Showman in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus. I set out to rediscover an uninhibited channel of expression and melt my more recent protective nature through physical and vocal practice gained from my training with master teachers David Smukler and Erika Batdorf. I have …
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Speaking of the Body: The Maternal Body, Race, and Language in the Plays of Cherrie Moraga, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Tony Kushner
… Cherríe Moraga’s Hungry Woman: A Mexic an Medea, Suzan - Lori Parks’s Red Letter Plays , and Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul . In order to examine the maternal body and its position as a highly stigmatized object, my thesis will weave together three diverse theatrical presentations from 21st century …
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HISTORICAL INTIMACY: CONTEMPORARY RECLAMATIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE DRAMA, POETRY, AND FICTION OF SUZAN-LORI PARKS, NATASHA TRETHEWAY, AND COLSON WHITEHEAD
Three contemporary authors – Suzan-Lori Parks, Natasha Trethewey, and Colson Whitehead – within the African American Literary Tradition explore relationships to history in light of a dominant rhetoric that represents African American history through a white, hegemonic lens. In Parks’ The America …
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Empathic Imagination: Performing Interracial Intimacy in Contemporary Women's Drama
… works by writers including Velina Hasu Houston, Suzan-Lori Parks, Diana Son, and Lynn Nottage, the dissertation argues that these plays reveal the fractured and illusory nature of an empathic community, where the desire for interracial affinities is intertwined with failures and anxieties that …
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Searching for a Path to Authenticity Through Physical Theatre Practices as the Baron Docteur in Parks' Venus
… that I apply to the rehearsal and performance of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Venus. Ultimately I make the first steps toward discovering emotional access through interoceptive examination, embodied listening by deprioritizing vision and hearing, and spontaneity of action achieved through acknowledgement and …
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Women's bodies in dramatic confrontations with patriarchal logic : the representation of violence against the female body in contemporary drama by women
… of their lands. This chapter analyzes Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus and Naomi Wallace's In the Heart of America. These dramas represent the violation of women's bodies to parallel the violation and rape of their lands that are effeminized by their subjugation to the dominant powers of the …
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When Oppressed Women Attack: Female-Enacted Violence Through Minority American Female Playwrights' Works
… of three American minority female playwrights: Suzan-Lori Parks' In the Blood, Maria Irene Fornes' Conduct of Life, and Young Jean Lee's Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven, I will analyze the female-enacted violence that occurs within these plays using feminist theories and psychology to …
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The quest for identity of African American women from 1939 to 2000 in postmodern American Drama
… /When the Rainbow is Enuf”,1976, and finally, Suzan-Lori Parks' “In the Blood”, 1999. All the selected plays were written between 1939 to 2000 to trace back the status of African American women and the main factors which helped them to overcome their identity issue. It is concluded that African …
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After The End Of The World: Poetics, Time, And Black Experimental Writing
… the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Nathaniel Mackey, Suzan-Lori Parks and Kamau Brathwaite. By thinking form as a locus of political and conceptual contestation and transformation, I seek methods for conceiving politics in literature apart from its references or the identities of authors and …
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Staging the sex wars : contemporary American playwrights through the prism of feminist conflict
… the Last BlackMan in the Whole Entire World by Suzan-Lori Parks, spell # 7 by Ntozake Shange, The Sisters Rosensweig by Wendy Wasserstein, The Constant State of Desire by Karen Finley, and World Without End by Holly Hughes. The works chosen, first performed between 1976 (spell #7) and 1992 (The …