ENG140Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Judith Butler, Kevin Cahoon
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Before hedwig was a play or a movie, it was a drag show. Major change from play to film is an inclusion of a character tommy gnosis. Hedwig doesn"t get a sex-change not because he feels more like a woman internally but: gender is not destiny. It"s not the final word. hand in hedwig"s pants and draws it back out. Pity for hedwig, anger for tommy and: emotional impact is the same as when oedipus realizes the crimes he"s committed. Pity & fear we experience watching tragedy. If i had been in tommy"s shoes i would have done the same. (cid:498)catharsis(cid:499) This is what i have to work with. Transgender and drag are not the same thing. Trans men & women are not necessarily entertainers. A drag performer can choose to: mount had been bothered when he saw hedwig for the first time because he thought. Hedwig was pretty hot and he was straight.