TY  - JOUR
T1  - Reinterpreting History and Restructuring Female Identities in Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls and Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good.
TT  - Caryl Churchill’in Top Girls ve Timberlake Wertenbaker’ın Our Country’s Good adlı oyunlarında Tarihin yeniden yorumlanması ve Kadın Kimliğinin Yeniden Yapılanması
AU  - Ülker Erkan, Ayça
PY  - 2018
DA  - May
Y2  - 2017
DO  - 10.24106/kefdergi.421663
JF  - Kastamonu Education Journal
JO  - Kastamonu Eğitim Dergisi
PB  - Kastamonu Üniversitesi
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2147-9844
SP  - 721
EP  - 728
VL  - 26
IS  - 3
LA  - en
AB  - The purpose of this study is to examine representationof marginal female identities and how history is reinterpreted to demonstratethe constant position of women in Carly Churchill’s play Top Girls and Timberlake Wertenbaker’s play Our Country’s Good. It discusses the representation of womenidentities with an exploration of female subjectivity, “personal is political”feminism and the establishment of a new female self in a patriarchal society.Both Churchill and Wertenbaker draw attention to historical subjects and pasttime, which make the history play an important role in writing their dramas.
KW  - women’s theatre and history
KW  - women identities
KW  - socialist feminism
KW  - personal is political
N2  - Bu çalışmanın amacı Caryl Churchill’in Top Girls ve Timberlake Wertenbaker’ın OurCountry’s Good adlıoyunlarında kadınların değişmez pozisyonlarını göstermek amacıyla marjinalkadın kimliklerinin ve tarihin nasıl yeniden yorumlandığını incelemektir. Buçalışma, kadın öznelliğinin keşfedilmesiyle birlikte kadın kimliklerinintemsilini, “kişisel olan politiktir” feminizmi ve ataerkil toplumda yeni bir kadınözünün kuruluşunu tartışır. Hem Churchill hem de Wertenbaker oyunlarınıyazarken tarihi konulara ve geçmiş zamana dikkat çekmiştirler.
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.24106/kefdergi.421663
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/468998
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