‘Hairy ape! So dat’s me, huh?’ La figure simienne comme construction sociale dans The Hairy Ape de Eugene O’Neill

An eminently political play, O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape (1922) offers a dark representation of the industrial America of the 1920s in which social interactions occur along a vertical axis. The author tackles the Simian figure from an aesthetic and social perspective in order to show how the process of...

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Main Author: Gwenola Le Bastard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2016-08-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/4552