Understanding Suzan-Lori Parks
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Larson discusses all of Parks’s genres—play, screenplay, essay, and novel—closely reading key texts from Parks’s more experimental earlier pieces as well as her more linear later narratives. Larson’s study begins with a survey of Parks’s earliest and most difficult texts including Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom and The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World. Larson then analyzes Venus, In the Blood, and the Lincoln Plays: The America Play and the Pulitzer Prize–winning TopDog/Underdog.
Larson also discusses two of Parks’s most important screenplays, Girl 6 and Their Eyes Were Watching God. In interpreting these screenplays, Larson examines film’s role in the popularization and representation of African American culture and history. These essays suggest an approach to all genres of literature and blend creativity, form, culture, and history into a revisionary aesthetic that allows for no identity or history to remain fixed, with Parks arguing that in order to be relevant they must all be dynamic and democratic.
Jennifer Larson
Jennifer Larson teaches literature, film, and writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Understanding Suzan-Lori Parks, coeditor of The Sentimental Mode: Essays in Literature, Film, and Television, and assistant editor of Reading Contemporary African-American Drama: Fragments of History, Fragments of Self. Larson’s work has also appeared in Women's Studies and South Carolina Review.
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