Bilgin Tekin Inci - Myths Of Oppression - Revisited In Cherrie Moraga`s And Liz Lochhead`s Drama - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Myths Of Oppression - Revisited In Cherrie Moraga`s And Liz Lochhead`s Drama
Author(s): Bilgin Tekin Inci
Publisher: Ibidem - Verlag Jessica Haunschild U Christian Schon
Barcode: 9783838203089
Pages: 166 Pages
Publication Date: 2/1/2012
Category: Feminism & Feminist Theory