EAN: 9783838203089

MYTHS OF OPPRESSION REVISITED IN CHERRIE MORAGA...

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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