Sujata Pandurang Solage

Voicing The Subaltern: Gender, Agency, And Resistance in Pearl Cleage's Flyin' West and Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus

Abstract African American women’s drama has consistently challenged literary and theatrical traditions that have marginalized Black women’s experiences, bodies, histories, and voices. Pearl Cleage’s Flyin’ West (1992) and Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus (1996) offer particularly product...

Voicing The Subaltern: Gender, Agency, And Resistance in Pearl Cleage's Flyin' West and Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus

African American women’s drama has consistently challenged literary and theatrical traditions that have marginalized Black women’s experiences, bodies, histories, and voices. Pearl Cleage’s Flyin’ West (1992) and Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus (1996) offer particularly productive sites...