DEALING WITH CLAIR’İN KÜLTÜREL MATERYALİST OKUMASI

Year 2022, Issue: 48, 79 - 87, 01.01.2022

Belgin Bağırlar

https://doi.org/10.30794/pausbed.948345

Abstract

Tarih boyunca bütün toplumlar belirli kuralları olan bir otorite tarafından yönetilmişlerdir ve her otorite toplumlarda farklı etkiler yaratmıştır. Tiyatroda toplumun ve kültürün yansıması olduğu için politik ve ideolojik kavramların zaman içinde ki gelişimlerinin ve değişimlerin izlerini taşır. 1970 sonrası ingiliz politik tiyatrosunda Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, Martin Crimp gibi oyun yazarlarının ortaya çıkması ile İngiliz tiyatrosunda yeni bir dönem başlar. Bu makalenin amacı, çağdaş bir yazar olan Martin Crimp’in döneminin politik ve sosyal değişmlerin aslında nasılda birbiri ile bağlantılı olduğunu Dealing with Clair (1988) isimli oyununda keşfetmektir. Dahası, Alan Sinfield, Jonathan Dollimore ve Raymond Williams, gibi kültürel materyalist eleştirmenlerin ışığında, Crimp’in yirminci yüzyılın sonlarında ki güç ideolojilerine karşı olan bakış açısını ortaya koymaktır.

Keywords

kültürel materyalizm, çağdaş ingiliz tiyatrosu, martin crimp, neoliberalizm, sınıf farklılıkları

CULTURAL MATERIALIST READING OF DEALING WITH CLAIR

Abstract

Throughout history, an authority with certain rules has governed all societies, and each authority has had different impacts on society. Since theatre is a reflection of society and culture, it carries the traces of the development and changes of political and ideological concepts over time. With the emergence of playwrights such as Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, and Martin Crimp in the British political theatre after 1970, a new era has begun in British theatre. The purpose of this article is to explore the interconnection between the political and social changes of the period through the lens of Martin Crimp’s play Dealing with Clair (1988). Moreover, in the light of cultural materialist critics (e.g. Alan Sinfield, Jonathan Dollimore, and Raymond Williams), it will put forth Crimp’s perspective against power ideologies in the late twentieth century.

Keywords

Cultural materialism, Neoliberalism, Class distinction, Contemporary British theatre, Martin Crimp

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