Power Struggle and Identity Reconstruction in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog

Emmerencia Beh Sih Abstract Experimental Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Suzan-Lori Parks, is an African-American who has added to the reconstruction of African-American identity through power struggle. In her play Topdog/Underdog, the rebuilding of identity for African-Americans is pursued, raised and enacted through power relations. Western discourses of power and identity have confirmed its insufficiency in the […]