{"product_id":"understanding-suzan-lori-parks-9781611171075","title":"Understanding Suzan-Lori Parks","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploration and analysis of the innovative screenplays and novels by an award-winning playwright. \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Suzan-Lori Parks\u003c\/em\u003e is a critical study of a playwright and screenwriter who was the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Suzan-Lori Parks is also the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Award, a Whiting Writers Award, a CalArts\/Alpert Award in the Arts, two Obie Awards, and a Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts. In this book Jennifer Larson examines how Parks, through the innovative language and narratives of her extensive body of work, investigates and invigorates literary and cultural history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLarson 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 \u003cem\u003eImperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World\u003c\/em\u003e. Larson then analyses \u003cem\u003eVenus, In the Blood\u003c\/em\u003e, and the Lincoln Plays: \u003cem\u003eThe America Play\u003c\/em\u003e and the Pulitzer Prize–winning \u003cem\u003eTopDog\/Underdog\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLarson also discusses two of Parks's most important screenplays, \u003cem\u003eGirl 6\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTheir Eyes Were Watching God\u003c\/em\u003e. In interpreting these screenplays, Larson examines film's role in the popularisation 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.","brand":"University of South Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041678623063,"sku":"9781611171075","price":26.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781611171075.jpg?v=1750951269","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/understanding-suzan-lori-parks-9781611171075","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}