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Transcultural Feminist Black Surrogacy in Suzan Lori Parks’ Plays: Venus and Fucking A.

Author name : MANAR TAHA IBRAHIM AHMED
Publication Date : 2024-04-01
Journal Name : MKASU

Abstract

This study contends that the concept of Transcultural Feminist Black Surrogacy challenges the cultural and gender biases the Black woman has been subjected to for ages. Black women have historically been objectified and stereotyped with negative physical and cultural standards. This objectification has led to the marginalization and oppression of black woman’s diaspora, in addition to the perpetuating oppressive structures of gender and racial, and social inequality. Playwright Suzan Lori Parks is the First Black woman writer to win Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Her plays Venus and Fucking A portray a transcultural Feminist Black surrogacy to the global White literary/historical models of the Classical, Epic, and Brechtian Theatre. Venus tells a part of history during the Middle Passage of the Colonial Era of England while Fucking A narrates a vague time that seems like the Thirty Years War in America. Despite the different geographical/historical settings, they re-objectify the Black woman’s feminist consciousness against cultural, gender, and socio-political biases. Through the concept of Feminist Black Surrogacy, the plays indicate that the Black woman’s survival is worth echoing equally to the White pairs. The study emphasizes how the concept of Transcultural Feminist Black surrogacy could militate the Black woman’s diaspora that has long been prevalent for epochs.

Keywords

Suzan Lori Parks, Venus, Fucking A, Transcultural Feminist Black Surrogacy, Feminist Consciousness, Black Woman diaspora.

Publication Link

https://doi.org/10.21608/mkasu.2023.209663.1157

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