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Anwar, Waseem.

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A psychosemiotic study of silence in selected plays by African American women dramatists.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	A psychosemiotic study of silence in selected plays by African American women dramatists./
作者:	Anwar, Waseem.
面頁冊數:	264 p.
附註:	Chair: Martha G. Bower.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-01A.
標題:	Black Studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3000450
ISBN:	0493091254

A psychosemiotic study of silence in selected plays by African American women dramatists.
Anwar, Waseem.

A psychosemiotic study of silence in selected plays by African American women dramatists. - 264 p.

Chair: Martha G. Bower.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2001.

In spite of the fact that black feminist criticism foregrounds a historical necessity to configure the discursive nature of black woman's speaking self, its voice as well as its silence, not much has been done to critically study the interpretation of silence in African American women's drama. This research encompasses a historical overview of the role of silence and its semantic richness represented through the black woman's dramatic discourse. The research highlights the use of black woman's silence by African American women dramatists as a means for self-inscription, complementing this silence as a defense mechanism as well as a subversive or disruptive power or what Mae Gwendolyn Henderson describes “a counterdiscourse” (Butler, <italic>Feminists Theorize the Political</italic> 156) for black female literary and dramatic expression.

ISBN: 0493091254Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017673
Black Studies.

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520 $a One major work of Marita Odette Bonner, Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Robbie McCauley is examined through references to their other works as well as to those of other black women dramatists. By “signifyin(g) on” (to use Henry Louis Gates' term) the necrophilia caused by the patriarchal politics of speaking subjectivity in American Society, the plays written by these dramatists attempt to subvert the politics of distance and dominance. Their works compress the historical silences of black womanhood into a well-composed subject position within the African American as well as the American literary traditions.
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