Suzan-Lori Parks
Biographic Data
| ID | 6419797 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzan-Lori Parks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzan-Lori |
| FAMILY NAME | Parks |
| SIGNATURE | PARKS S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
America Play and Other Works
New Black Math
10 years after writing the essay "the equation for black people on stage" Im standing at the same crossroads asking the same questions. No sweat. Sometimes you can walk a hundred miles and end up in the same spot. The world ain't round for nothing, right? What is a black play? The definition is housed in the reality of two things that occurred recently and almost simultaneously: 26 August 05, playwright scholar poet-king August Wilson announces h…
Venus
Venus Suzan-Lori Parks (bio) The Roles • MISS SAARTJIE BAARTMAN, A.K.A. THE GIRL, AND LATER, THE VENUS HOTTENTOT • THE MAN, LATER. THE BARON DOCTEUR • THE MAN'S BROTHER, LATER, THE MOTHER-SHOWMAN, LATER, THE GRADE-SCHOOL CHUM • THE NEGRO RESURRECTIONIST • THE CHORUS as: THE CHORUS OF THE 8 HUMAN WONDERS, THE CHORUS OF THE SPECTATORS, THE CHORUS OF THE COURT, THE CHORUS OF THE 8 ANATOMISTS OVERTURE VENUS clothed and facing stage right. SHE revolve…
An Interview with Suzan-Lori Parks
Callaloo - Volume 19, Number 2, Spring 1996
The America Play and Other Works
Suzan-Lori Parks and Liz Diamond
The first time I read a Suzan-Lori Parks play I flashed to Wittgenstein, not Gertrude Stein. There seemed to me to be a utilitarian focus to Parks' wordsa surgical intensity-that belied her play's surface impression of hypnotic languor. Surely this is what Wittgenstein meant when he spoke of language games, I thought, and the contingencies of various meanings in languages' various contexts, words having uses and not mere dictionary definitions (s…
The America Play
An Interview with Suzan-Lori Parks
Callaloo - Volume 19, Number 2, Spring 1996
New Black Math
10 years after writing the essay "the equation for black people on stage" Im standing at the same crossroads asking the same questions. No sweat. Sometimes you can walk a hundred miles and end up in the same spot. The world ain't round for nothing, right? What is a black play? The definition is housed in the reality of two things that occurred recently and almost simultaneously: 26 August 05, playwright scholar poet-king August Wilson announces h…
The America Play
The America Play and Other Works
Suzan-Lori Parks and Liz Diamond
The first time I read a Suzan-Lori Parks play I flashed to Wittgenstein, not Gertrude Stein. There seemed to me to be a utilitarian focus to Parks' wordsa surgical intensity-that belied her play's surface impression of hypnotic languor. Surely this is what Wittgenstein meant when he spoke of language games, I thought, and the contingencies of various meanings in languages' various contexts, words having uses and not mere dictionary definitions (s…
Venus
Venus Suzan-Lori Parks (bio) The Roles • MISS SAARTJIE BAARTMAN, A.K.A. THE GIRL, AND LATER, THE VENUS HOTTENTOT • THE MAN, LATER. THE BARON DOCTEUR • THE MAN'S BROTHER, LATER, THE MOTHER-SHOWMAN, LATER, THE GRADE-SCHOOL CHUM • THE NEGRO RESURRECTIONIST • THE CHORUS as: THE CHORUS OF THE 8 HUMAN WONDERS, THE CHORUS OF THE SPECTATORS, THE CHORUS OF THE COURT, THE CHORUS OF THE 8 ANATOMISTS OVERTURE VENUS clothed and facing stage right. SHE revolve…
An Interview with Suzan-Lori Parks
Callaloo - Volume 19, Number 2, Spring 1996
New Black Math
10 years after writing the essay "the equation for black people on stage" Im standing at the same crossroads asking the same questions. No sweat. Sometimes you can walk a hundred miles and end up in the same spot. The world ain't round for nothing, right? What is a black play? The definition is housed in the reality of two things that occurred recently and almost simultaneously: 26 August 05, playwright scholar poet-king August Wilson announces h…
America Play and Other Works
Art (5 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues (1 work) · American Literature and Culture (1 work) · American Sports and Literature (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Astrobiology (1 work)