Dark Matter: Invisibility in Drama, Theater, and Performance by Andrew Sofer

Author:Andrew Sofer [Sofer, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Performing Arts, General, theater, History & Criticism, Literary Criticism, Drama
ISBN: 9780472029686
Google: _pdFDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2013-10-28T00:20:07.038522+00:00

Traumatic Irony: The America Play

Rejecting traumatic realism, the New Trauma playwrights stage trauma's gravitational effects with an emphasis on unseen terror rather than graphic horror. History and narrative become a series of effacements or gaps that the audience must fill in. By doing so, trauma is rehearsed rather than mapped, and the direct representation of trauma-events eschewed or mediated. Suzan-Lori Parks's The America Play (1994) considers African American history as a trauma that can never come into full visibility because American culture has disavowed it. Like Caruth, Parks conceives traumatic history in terms of possession. She writes:

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