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Contents Introduction.................................................................................................................. 1 1 Parks’ Dramatic Creation......................................................................................... 2 2 Literature Review of Parks’ Drama....................................................................... 11 3 An Overview of New Historicism......................................................................... 20 Chapter One Ghosts and Historical Historiography: The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World............................................................................................................................ 29 1 Specters of History and Parks’ Predilection for Ghosts........................................ 31 2 The Ghost of Black Man as Carrier of Traumatic Memory................................... 42 3 The Ghost Chorus as Historiographer of Black History........................................ 53 Chapter Two Body as Text and Historical Reconstruction: Venus..................... 73 1 Black Body of Baartman/The Venus as a Discursive Text.................................... 75 2 Reconstruction of Baartman and Deconstruction of the Discursive Power.......... 92 3 Parks’ Dramaturgy of Historical Reconstruction................................................. 107 Chapter Three Historical Re(-)creation and Historical Legacy: The America Play 121 1 Carnivalesque Re(-)creation of the Lincoln Myth............................................... 123 2 Theatrical Performance and Historical Appropriation......................................... 132 3 Fakery of the Historical Legacy.......................................................................... 144 Conclusion................................................................................................................ 150 Works Cited.............................................................................................................. 157 Appendix................................................................................................................... 172 Postscript................................................................................................................... 174