Suzan-Lori Parks (1963 - )

Suzan-Lori Parks, an African-American playwright and screenwriter, was born on 10^th May 1963 in Fort Knox, Kentucky into a military family. As a child, she developed a taste for folklore, mythology as well as wrote numerous short stories and songs.

[2013-11-27] The Bell Jar

Last Wednesday, we met to discuss The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel written by Sylvia Plath. The presentation started with a brief peek into Plath’s life and a fragment of an interview with the poetess carried out in 1962. Looking back and recalling our impressions of reading the book for the first time, many of us admitted that Esther Greenwood used to be a role model and although mysterious, dark and troubled, still remains a fascinating and truly complex figure. We’ve also noticed some interesting notions and pondered on motifs, themes, and symbols found on the pages of The Bell Jar. We wondered how we shape our reality through language and how language shapes the reality we live in. What would happen if female writers were given stylos as attributes instead of paper roses? We tried to FIGure out what paths could women follow in America of the 1950s and more importantly, whether the plural form [paths] was righteously used in their case?