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oapen-20.500.12657-768612023-10-18T13:06:16Z Suzan-Lori Parks in Person Kolin, Philip C. Young, Harvey 365 Day, 365 Plays, African American, Fucking A Getting Mother's Body, Imperceptible, In the Blood, Mutabilities, Public Theatre, Pultizer bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AN Theatre studies This collection of interviews offers unprecedented insight into the plays and creative works of Suzan-Lori Parks, as well as being an important commentary on contemporary theater and playwriting, from jazz and opera to politics and cultural memory. Suzan-Lori Parks in Person contains 18 interviews, some previously untranscribed or specially undertaken for this book, plus commentaries on her work by major directors and critics, including Liz Diamond, Richard Foreman, Bonnie Metzgar and Beth Schachter. These contributions combine to honor the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in drama, and explore her ideas about theater, history, race, and gender. Material from a wide range of sources chronologically charts Parks’s career from the 1990s to the present. This is a major collection with immediate relevance to students of American/African-American theater, literature and culture. Parks’s engaging voice is brought to the fore, making the book essential for undergraduates as well as scholars. 2023-10-18T13:00:59Z 2023-10-18T13:00:59Z 2014 book 9780203103845 9780415624916 9780415624930 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76861 eng Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780203103845 10.4324/9780203103845 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb dcb72c07-958c-4768-a1bb-9bd0f076717a 9780203103845 9780415624916 9780415624930 Routledge open access
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This collection of interviews offers unprecedented insight into the plays and creative works of Suzan-Lori Parks, as well as being an important commentary on contemporary theater and playwriting, from jazz and opera to politics and cultural memory. Suzan-Lori Parks in Person contains 18 interviews, some previously untranscribed or specially undertaken for this book, plus commentaries on her work by major directors and critics, including Liz Diamond, Richard Foreman, Bonnie Metzgar and Beth Schachter. These contributions combine to honor the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in drama, and explore her ideas about theater, history, race, and gender. Material from a wide range of sources chronologically charts Parks’s career from the 1990s to the present. This is a major collection with immediate relevance to students of American/African-American theater, literature and culture. Parks’s engaging voice is brought to the fore, making the book essential for undergraduates as well as scholars.
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