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

‘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
Subjects:
simian figure
social criticism
politics
American society of the 1920s
becoming animal
language
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/4552
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‘Hairy ape! So dat’s me, huh?’ La figure simienne comme construction sociale dans The Hairy Ape de Eugene O’Neill
Sillages Critiques
simian figure
social criticism
politics
American society of the 1920s
becoming animal
language
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title ‘Hairy ape! So dat’s me, huh?’ La figure simienne comme construction sociale dans The Hairy Ape de Eugene O’Neill
title_short ‘Hairy ape! So dat’s me, huh?’ La figure simienne comme construction sociale dans The Hairy Ape de Eugene O’Neill
title_full ‘Hairy ape! So dat’s me, huh?’ La figure simienne comme construction sociale dans The Hairy Ape de Eugene O’Neill
title_fullStr ‘Hairy ape! So dat’s me, huh?’ La figure simienne comme construction sociale dans The Hairy Ape de Eugene O’Neill
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title_sort ‘hairy ape! so dat’s me, huh?’ la figure simienne comme construction sociale dans the hairy ape de eugene o’neill
publisher Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
series Sillages Critiques
issn 1272-3819
1969-6302
publishDate 2016-08-01
description 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.
topic simian figure
social criticism
politics
American society of the 1920s
becoming animal
language
url http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/4552
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