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
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