Introduction
1 Parks' Dramatic Creation
2 Literature Review of Parks' Drama
3 An Overview of New Historicism
Chapter One Ghosts and Historical Historiography: The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World
1 Specters of History and Parks' Predilection for Ghosts
2 The Ghost of Black Man as Carrier of Traumatic Memory
3 The Ghost Chorus as Historiographer of Black History
Chapter Two Body as Text and Historical Reconstruction: Venus
1 Black Body of Baartman/The Venus as a Discursive Text
2 Reconstruction of Baartman and Deconstruction of the Discursive Power
3 Parks' Dramaturgy of Historical Reconstruction
Chapter Three Historical Re(-)creation and Historical Legacy : The America Play
1 Carnivalesque Re (- ) creation of the Lincoln Myth
2 Theatrical Performance and Historical Appropriation
3 Fakery of the Historical Legacy
Conclusion
Works Cited
Appendix
Postscript