ENG140Y1 Lecture Notes - Existence Precedes Essence, Berlin Wall, Metanarrative
Document Summary
Jewish drag queen, yitzhak, marries him to take him to america: he promises to never wear a wig, because you must leave something behind , he collapses in the middle of his celeb and becomes tommy gnosis. Gives wig to yitzhak and walks off stage. In film: tommy and hedwig separate after his last live play- In 1960s underground manhattan, these places became a place for different cultures to stir. Before hedwig was a play, it was just a bunch of jokes in a drag bar. Hedwig begins as a search for love; the search for the other half: the love is both homosexual and transsexual. Urban societies have become more open to transsexuality. Catharsis for tommy gnosis, a combination of fear and pity. Hedwig diving: story flies above the quarrels within the trans-sexual community. Of our time : she does not know how to fit in, where she belongs: symbol of confinement and oppression.
