“Discrimination against Afro-American Women in the Women‘s “The Social Construction of Difference: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality.” Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study. “What is Intertextuality?” The God of Small Things. “Theory, Praxis and Transformation: The Dramatic Writing of Suzan-Lori ParksĪs Liberatory Critical Pedagogy”.

The Blood and Fucking A”, Journal of America Drama and Theatre 16 (2), 77-87. “Hawthorne’s Hester as a Red-Lettered Black Woman? Suzan-Lori Parks In “Nurturing and Murderous Mothers in Suzan- Lori Parks’s In the Blood andįucking A.” America Drama 16:1 (2007),75-89. New York: Clarendon Press, 1990.įoster, Verna A. Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms. In its conclusion, the study demonstrates that not only black, but also white women are being criticized by the same people who place them in their shameful situations.īaldick, Chris. The study indicates that Suzan-Lori Parks’ drama addresses issues that bear meaning to the historical, cultural and socio-political environment within which it grows. This theoretical position informs the conceptual praxis that this study maintains.

Texts have no incorporated or unified meaning of their own they are carefully related to the ongoing cultural and social developments. Rewriting focusses on how a text is transformed through devices like imitation, repetition, allusion, satire and parody. This theory is important because when interpreting a text in connection to other texts and pre-texts, interpretation becomes interesting and flexible. At the core of the analysis, is the theoretical backdrop of intertextuality. The paper illustrates that ideas and events can be assembled from different studies, situations, and locations to bring out the meaning. This has been achieved by contextualizing Parks’ In the Blood with Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter so as to assess the interpretation of history and society through the process of re-writing. This study examines how Suzan-Lori Parks in In the Blood, shapes the presentation of a text to a wider sociological context in order to attain greater understanding and recognition of her message. Their plays frequently reflect and deflect the socio-political events of the society. Contextualisation, Re-writing, texts, meaning, history, society AbstractĪfrican-American female playwrights have a durable inclination for social and political change.

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