Suzan-Lori Parks confirmed herself as one of the most exciting and successful playwrights of her generation when her work Topdog/Underdog was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize; making her the only African American woman to win the award.Despite the cultural weight of this achievement; Parks remains difficult both to pigeonhole and to summarize. This volume seeks to provide a context for her work; with essays from major and emerging scholars addressing the importance of factors such as gender; ethnicity; language and history in plays from her first major work; Imperceptible Mutabilities of the Third Kingdom to the 365 Days / 365 Plays project. Suzan-Lori Parks: A Casebook represents the first major study of this unique voice in contemporary drama. Contributors: Leonard Berkman; Jason Bush; Shawn Marie-Garrett; Andrea Goto; Heidi Holder; Barbara Ozieblo; Kevin J. Wetmore Jr and Harvey Young.Kevin J. Wetmore Jr is Professor of Theatre at Loyola Marymount University; as well as being a professional actor and director of the Comparative Drama Conference. He is the author of The Athenian Sun in an African Sky and Black Dionysus: Greek Tragedy and African American Theatre.Alycia Smith-Howard an Assistant Professor at New York University in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study; where she is the Artistic Director of the Gallatin Arts Festival and the Book Reviews Editor at the New England Theatre Journal. A Fellow of the Folger Shakespeare Library; her areas of specialization include Shakespeare; performance history; feminist theatre aesthetics and literature and drama of the south.
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