English 2310E Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Breast Self-Examination, Satin, Metonymy
25 Mar 2017
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Monodrama: a one-character play, social roles and their constructions, how we can inhabit them, alienation + estrangement (social roles and defamiliarizing the world) A play-writing strategy: brechtian theatre | alienating the audience from the character, estranged from the character so we do no see ourselves in them. Multiple modes of narration and dialogue to create a distance between the audience and the play. A work imported to melodrama/monodrama and the play as a whole, feminist literature. Discussion of language systems: when we emerge as speaking subjects, our words have histories that precede them and are signified within those histories. Opens up a hybridity of constructions of women: no binary, opens a third space (homi. Bhabha: where binaries are unsettled, black/white, male/female, all the traditional binaries become unsettled. The play: the role of music within monodramas. Thursday, february 9, 2017: what the character does with the space. Breeching the imaginary divide between the audience and the actor: objects on stage.
