BLACK WOMEN S DRAMATIC DISCOURSE | A Psychosemiotic Study of Silence in Selected Plays by African American Women Dramatists. This item is unavailable.BLACK WOMEN S DRAMATIC DISCOURSE | A Psychosemiotic Study of Silence in Selected Plays by African American Women Dramatists

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.

Waseem Anwar, Fulbright Fellow for doctoral as well as postdoctoral studies in the fields of Literature and Criticism: Studied and researched at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1995-2001) and Duke University (2007-2008). Gale Group American Scholar: Professor and Chair of English, Forman Christian College / University, Lahore, Pakistan.