Postmodern Landscape: Postmodernist Discourse in Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping and Fucking / Postmodern Manzara: Mark Ravenhill’in Shopping and Fucking Adlı Oyununda Postmodernist Söylem
Abstract
Abstract: Among contemporary dramatists of the 1990s, Mark Ravenhill has a unique
place. As an enthusiastic supporter of the society and an iconoclast of modern drama he
is the most original and enigmatic writer of the post-Thatcher generation. Ravenhill’s
dramatic voice is indisputably the strongest of the postmodern era. He creates a postmodern
landscape where the influence of consumerism can be felt everywhere in society. In his
most masterly work Shopping and Fucking he created a dark vision of postmodern
atmosphere. This article aims at revealing a critical appraisal of postmodernist discourse
reflected in Ravenhill’s Shopping and Fucking.
Keywords: Contemporary British theatre, Mark Ravenhill, postmodern theatre,
Shopping and Fucking.
Öz: 1990 sonrası çağdaş İngiliz oyun yazarları arasında Mark Ravenhill’in özel bir
yeri vardır. Toplumun coşkulu bir destekçisi ve çağdaş tiyatronun bir tür putkıranı olan
yazar, Thatcher sonrası tiyatronun en gizemli kalemidir. Hiç kuşkusuz onun dramatik
söylemi postmodern dönemin en keskin olanıdır. Mark Ravenhill oyunlarında, tüketim
olgusunun toplumun her kesimini etkilediği postmodern bir manzara oluşturur. Ustalık
dolu oyunu Shopping and Fucking’de de karamsar bir postmodern atmosfer yaratmıştır.
Bu makalenin amacı, Ravenhill’in Shopping and Fucking oyunundaki postmodernist
söylemi açığa çıkarmaktır.
Anahtar Kelimeler: Çağdaş İngiliz Tiyatrosu, Mark Ravenhill, postmodern tiyatro,
Shopping and Fucking
Keywords
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Year 2012,
Volume: 16 Issue: 2, 113 - 122, 10.04.2013
Abstract
1990 sonrası çağdaş İngiliz oyun yazarları arasında Mark Ravenhill’in özel bir
yeri vardır. Toplumun coşkulu bir destekçisi ve çağdaş tiyatronun bir tür putkıranı olan
yazar, Thatcher sonrası tiyatronun en gizemli kalemidir. Hiç kuşkusuz onun dramatik
söylemi postmodern dönemin en keskin olanıdır. Mark Ravenhill oyunlarında, tüketim
olgusunun toplumun her kesimini etkilediği postmodern bir manzara oluşturur. Ustalık
dolu oyunu Shopping and Fucking’de de karamsar bir postmodern atmosfer yaratmıştır.
Bu makalenin amacı, Ravenhill’in Shopping and Fucking oyunundaki postmodernist
söylemi açığa çıkarmaktır.
References
- Baudrillard, J. (1989). “The Anorexic Ruins” in Looking Back on the End of the World, edited by Dietmar Kamper and Christoph Wulf, Trans. David Antal, New York: Semiotext (e), pp. 29-45.
- Billingham, P. (2007). At the Sharp End, London: Methuen.
- Billington, M. (2007). State of the Nation: British Theatre Since 1945, London: Faber and Faber.
- Cavendish, D. (27 September 1996). “On Theatre”, Independent.
- D’Monte, R. (2008). “Thatcher’s Children: Alienation and Anomie in the Plays of Judy Upton”, in Cool Britannia?: British Political Drama in the 1990s, edited by Rebecca D’Monte and Graham Saunders, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 79-95.
- Lyotard, J.F. (1984). The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- Mcgrath, J. (2002). Naked Thoughts that Roam About: Wrestling with Theatre, 1959-2001, New York: Theatre Communications Group.
- Monforte, E. (2007). “Mark Ravenhill”, in British Theatre of the 1990s: Interviews with Directors, Playwrights, Critics and Academics, eds. Mireia Aragay, Hildegard Klein, Enric Monforte, and Pilar Zozaya, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 91-104.
- Osborne, J. (1957). Look Back in Anger. London: Faber and Faber.
- Ravenhill, M. (2001). Mark Ravenhill Plays 1: Shopping and Fucking, Faust is Dead, Handbag, Some Explicit Polaroids. London: Methuen.
- Ravenhill, M. (22 March 2003). “A Touch of Evil”. Guardian.
- Ravenhill, M. (2009). “Foreword”, in Dan Rebellato, Theatre and Globalisation, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. ix-xiv.
- Rebellato, D. (1996). “Commentary”, in Mark Ravenhill Shopping and Fucking, London: Methuen, pp.xii-xliii.
- Rebellato, D. (2001). “Introduction”, in Mark Ravenhill Plays 1: Shopping and Fucking, Faust is Dead, Handbag, Some Explicit Polaroids. London: Methuen, pp.ix-xx.
- Rebellato, D. (2009). Theatre and Globalisation. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Sierz, A. (2000). In-Yer-Face Theatre British Drama Today. London: Faber and Faber.
- Sierz, A. (2006). The Theatre of Martin Crimp. London: Methuen.
- Sierz, A. (2011). Rewriting the Nation: British Theatre Today. London: Methuen.
- Urban, K. (2008). “Cruel Britannia”, in Cool Britannia?: British Political Drama in the 1990s, edited by Rebecca D’Monte and Graham Saunders. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 38-55.
- Wandor, M. (2001). Post-War British Drama: Looking Back in Gender. London: Routledge.
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| Primary Language | en;tr |
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| Journal Section | Makaleler |
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| Publication Date | April 10, 2013 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2012 Volume: 16 Issue: 2 |
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