« If I was you — I’d be well glad I weren’t me » : stratégies politiques de déplacement dans salt. de Selina Thompson (2017) et stoning mary de debbie tucker green (2005)
This paper explores how frontiers are shifted in Selina Thompson’s salt. (2017) and debbie tucker green’s stoning mary (2005). debbie tucker green operates a critical shift in perspective in the staging of her play as she transposes issues which are usually associated with Sub-Saharan Africa unto wh...
| Published in: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2025-06-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ebc/16111 |
| Summary: | This paper explores how frontiers are shifted in Selina Thompson’s salt. (2017) and debbie tucker green’s stoning mary (2005). debbie tucker green operates a critical shift in perspective in the staging of her play as she transposes issues which are usually associated with Sub-Saharan Africa unto white bodies, to stage a cyclical violence doomed to repeat itself. With salt., the blurred frontiers of the play/performance underline a fragmented identity: the playwright attempts to cement her personal experience into the collective story of the diaspora triggered by slavery and colonialism. Both plays shift and question the notion of frontiers to bring to light ethical and political questions. I would like to show that these strategies of shifting frontiers constitute the aesthetic frame for both plays and reveal the porosity of a double frontier — identity and theatrical form. |
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| ISSN: | 1168-4917 2271-5444 |