‘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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
2016-08-01
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| Series: | Sillages Critiques |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/4552 |
| Summary: | 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 man’s “becoming-animal” finds itself entangled in a class conflict. While continuously challenging the frontier between man and beast, O’Neill questions notions of identity and belonging. |
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| ISSN: | 1272-3819 1969-6302 |