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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Myths of Oppression: Revisited in Cherrie Moraga's and Liz Lochhead's Drama

Myths of Oppression: Revisited in Cherrie Moraga's and Liz Lochhead's Drama

Bilgin Tekin, Inci

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ISBN10: 3838203089
ISBN13: 9783838203089
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Published: Feb 1 2012
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Inci Bilgin Tekin's study offers a comparative perspective on two very challenging contemporary female playwrights, Liz Lochhead and Cherrie Moraga, and their Scottish and Chicanese adaptations of myths--such as the Greek Medea and Oedipus or the Mayan Popul Vuh--which address ethnic, racial, gender, and hierarchical oppression. Her book incorporates postcolonial and feminist readings of Lochhead's and Moraga's plays while it also explores different mythologies on the background. Bilgin Tekin not only introduces an original point of view on Liz Lochhead's and Cherrie Moraga's plays as adaptations or rewrites, but also calls attention to the non-canonized Scottish, Aztec, and Mayan mythologies. Following an innovative approach, she discusses the question in which ways Lochhead's and Moraga's adaptations of myths are challenges to the canon and further suggests a feminist version of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed.The study appeals to readers of mythology, drama, and comparative literature. Those interested in postcolonial and feminist theories will also gain valuable new insights.

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