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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460785803321

Autore

Parks Suzan-Lori

Titolo

The America play, and other works / / Suzan-Lori Parks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Theatre Communications Group, , 1995

©1995

ISBN

1-55936-736-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Disciplina

812/.54

Soggetti

African Americans

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents -- Essays -- Possession -- from Elements of Style -- An Edquation for Black People Onstage -- Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom -- Betting on the Dust Commander -- Pickling -- The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World -- Devotees in the Garden of Love -- The America Play

Sommario/riassunto

"Parks has burst through every known convention to invent a new theatrical language, like a jive Samuel Beckett, while exploding American cultural myths and stereotypes along the way ... She's passionate and jokey and some kind of genius"--Vogue.