Re/playing slavery: The play within the play in Suzan-Lori Parks’s White Noise and Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play

This article considers the use of the play within the play in recent African American dramas. Following Caroline Levine’s discussion of forms, it asks about the dramaturgical and political affordances of this device when used together with the reenactment of the Master-Slave script. Comparing Suzan-...

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Main Authors: Ilka Saal, Jade Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut des Amériques
Series:IdeAs
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ideas/15056