BLACK WOMEN S DRAMATIC DISCOURSE

This book encompasses a historical overview of the§role of silence and its semantic richness to§configure the speaking self of black women. The§African American women dramatists researched here§compress black womanhood into a well-composed subject§position. Highlighting their use of silence as a counterdiscourse; a means for self-inscription,§defense mechanism, or subversive and disruptive§power, the book researches the psychosemiotics of§silence to decipher the notion of the dominant§speaking subject. Major works of Bonner, Hansberry,§Shange, Kennedy, Parks, and McCauley are examined to§understand the necrophilia caused by the patriarchal§politics in American Society, while critical§approaches employed by literary theorists and black§feminists from the European, American, and African§American backgrounds are used to trace a commonality§of experience. Overall, the book helps the readers§recognize black women s voiceless-ness as a more§meaningful and powerful way to secure their silent§subjectivity. Interdisciplinary in spirit, it§facilitates professionals and researchers in the§fields of drama, theatre, literary criticism and§theory, linguistics, and even social sciences.