Gender and Race Trouble: The Emperor Jones by The Wooster Group
This paper is a study of The Wooster Group’s staging of identity-related tensions in Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones. Using Judith Butler’s theories on performativity as an analytical framework, this paper shows how Elizabeth LeCompte’s iconoclastic American company deconstructs O’Neill’s 1920 wo...
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| Language: | English |
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2015-11-01
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| Series: | Angles |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/angles/2176 |