Bridging the Gap: Privileged vs. Underprivileged in Suzan-Lori Parks in the Blood
Journal Title: International Journal of Science and Innovative Research - Year 2021, Vol 2, Issue 06
Abstract
The objective of this article is to assess the different marginalized groups in society and demonstrate how they still negotiate with their oppressors so as to create their own identities. The power struggle is an important concern that exists in all societies today. In Parks „In the Blood, the different types of power relations that exist are at the level of race, class and gender which cause separation in the society. The issues of race, gender and class are fundamental in this play. This study problematizes three main concerns of contemporary drama― race, class and gender which are controversial to the American society and center on social inequality, oppression and downgrading. The thrust of the paper is to demonstrate how the underprivileged groups are treated in mainstream society and to evaluate how they still quest for self-hood in such states. In spite of the evolutionary trends of the ―Black Lives Matter‖ and the spill-out that ―All Lives Matter‖, equality, justice and peace are far-fetching in American society. The new historicist approach suits this context since it discusses power relations in the different groups in the society as encapsulated in Parks‘In the Blood. Tyson articulates: ―The vehicle by which power circulates is a never-ending proliferation of exchange‖ (1). Power flows at diverse levels. Characters that are relegated by the privileged in Parks‘play preoccupy themselves with constructing their own identities of race, class and gender, and make their voices clearly heard.
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Emmerencia Beh Sih
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