Suzan-Lori Parks on Stage and Screen

Sara Warner is an associate professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University, USA. She is the author of Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure and has published widely on dramatic literature, feminist and queer studies, prison theatre, affect theory and academic labour.

Introduction: Spellbound Chapter One: Objects Matter The Sinner's Place Betting on the Dust Commander Devotees in the Garden of Love The Radio Plays: Pickling, Third Kingdom, Locomotive Chapter Two: Economies of Scale Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World The America Play 365 Plays/365 Days Father Comes Home from the War Chapter Three: Tragic Optimism Venus In the Blood Fucking A The Book of Grace Chapter Four: Physical Intimacy: Recasting The Great White Way Topdog/Underdog Porgy and Bess Unchain My Heart Chapter Five: Chronic Desires Getting Mother's Body Anemone Me Girl 6 Their Eyes Were Watching God Chapter Six: Artistic Labors Essays ("Possession," "Elements of Style," "New Black Math") Topdog Diaries Watch Me Work Sula Parks Critical Perspectives Conclusion Selected Global Production History Bibliography Index