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The Study of Pantomime as an Example of ‘Decolonizing Fiction’

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The Study of Pantomime as an Example of ‘Decolonizing Fiction’

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This paper aims to analyze the play called Pantomime by Derek Walcott (1978) according to Greimas’s actantial model. The play problematizes issues of identity and validity of the binary oppositions such as master/slave and white/black through employing the master and slave stereotypes animated in the work called Robinson Crusoe. There are two characters named Trewe (S1), and Jackson (S2) in the play. S1, who is a retired English actor, sees his culture as superior to the native culture. S2, who is the servant of S1, has an inferiority complex as he is black. One day, S1, who runs a small hotel in Tobago and wants to entertain his guests at his hotel, wants to prepare a performance of the novel called Robinson Crusoe with Jackson. Interestingly enough, their performance does not reflect the binary oppositions based on the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized as in Robinson Crusoe. On the contrary, it openly reverses the roles performed by the colonizer and the colonized after a constant role-shifting by S1 and S2. At the end of the play, S2 asks for a raise from his employer S1 and this might be thought as a possibility for creating a world which is free from binary oppositions, and for starting a new sort of relationship based on an employee and an employer.

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Kaynakça

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

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Konular

Sanat ve Edebiyat

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Nisan 2022

Gönderilme Tarihi

31 Ağustos 2021

Kabul Tarihi

21 Şubat 2022

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2022 Cilt: 21 Sayı: 2

Kaynak Göster

APA
Işık, S. (2022). The Study of Pantomime as an Example of ‘Decolonizing Fiction’. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 21(2), 739-750. https://doi.org/10.21547/jss.989065
AMA
1.Işık S. The Study of Pantomime as an Example of ‘Decolonizing Fiction’. GAUN-JSS. 2022;21(2):739-750. doi:10.21547/jss.989065
Chicago
Işık, Sevcan. 2022. “The Study of Pantomime as an Example of ‘Decolonizing Fiction’”. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 21 (2): 739-50. https://doi.org/10.21547/jss.989065.
EndNote
Işık S (01 Nisan 2022) The Study of Pantomime as an Example of ‘Decolonizing Fiction’. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 21 2 739–750.
IEEE
[1]S. Işık, “The Study of Pantomime as an Example of ‘Decolonizing Fiction’”, GAUN-JSS, c. 21, sy 2, ss. 739–750, Nis. 2022, doi: 10.21547/jss.989065.
ISNAD
Işık, Sevcan. “The Study of Pantomime as an Example of ‘Decolonizing Fiction’”. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 21/2 (01 Nisan 2022): 739-750. https://doi.org/10.21547/jss.989065.
JAMA
1.Işık S. The Study of Pantomime as an Example of ‘Decolonizing Fiction’. GAUN-JSS. 2022;21:739–750.
MLA
Işık, Sevcan. “The Study of Pantomime as an Example of ‘Decolonizing Fiction’”. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, c. 21, sy 2, Nisan 2022, ss. 739-50, doi:10.21547/jss.989065.
Vancouver
1.Sevcan Işık. The Study of Pantomime as an Example of ‘Decolonizing Fiction’. GAUN-JSS. 01 Nisan 2022;21(2):739-50. doi:10.21547/jss.989065