ED BULLINS’IN “THE TAKING OF MISS JANIE” ADLI OYUNUNDA KALIPLARIN YIKILMASI

Abstract

Afro-Amerikan oyun yazarı Ed Bullins, 1960’larda politik görü leriyle öne çıkmı , önemli bir yazardır. 1974-75 yılları Tiyatro Ele tirmenleri’nin En yi Oyun Ödülünü kazanan The Taking of Miss Janie adlı oyununda, Bullins, bir yandan altmı lı yıllara damgasını vuran çe itli olay ve dü ünceleri dramatize ederken, di er yandan ırklar arasındaki ili kileri inceler. Oyunun geneline hakim olan iddet ve yıkıcılı ın yarattı ı karamsar havaya ra men, bu çalı ma, oyundaki sevgi ve insanlık adına umut veren anlara dikkat çekecektir

Keywords

• Irkçılık, tecavüz, iddet, kalıp tiplemeler

Deconstructing Stereotypes : Ed Bullins' the Taking of Miss Janie

Abstract

African-American playwright Ed Bullins is one of the most significant figures to emerge from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. His 1975 play The Taking of Miss Janie is a dramatic portrait of the specific events and ideas that created the 1960s, and their impact on the individual consciousnesses of the characters. The play brings into the foreground many issues related to race and ethnicity in America. Even though the general tone of The Taking of Miss Janie is one of violence and gloom, this reading focuses on those moments where love and human affection outshine the sense of destruction predominant in the play.

Keywords

• Stereotypes, Rape, Violence, the Sixties, Race

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