Revisiting the Theatre of the Absurd in Christopher Duranggs 'For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls' (1993) and 'Desire, Desire, Desire' (1995)

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hend Mohamed Samir Mahmoud Khalil
Keyword(s):  
Theatre Of The Absurd ◽  
Southern Belle

scholarly journals Outside the Magic Circle of White Male Supremacy in the Jim Crow South: Virginia Foster Durr’s Memoirs

Text Matters ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 296-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana María Jiménez-Placer
Keyword(s):  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
White Male ◽  
Real Effects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Southern Belle ◽  
Social Ostracism ◽  
Male Supremacy ◽  
Jim Crow South ◽  
Magic Circle

Virginia Foster Durr was born in 1903 in Birmingham, Alabama in a former planter class family, and in spite of the gradual decline in the family fortune, she was brought up as a traditional southern belle, utterly subjected to the demands of the ideology of white male supremacy that ruled the Jim Crow South. Thus, she soon learnt that in the South a black woman could not be a lady, and that as a young southern woman she was desperately in need of a husband. It was not until she had fulfilled this duty that she began to open her eyes to the reality of poverty, injustice, discrimination, sexism and racism ensuing from the set of rules she had so easily embraced until then. In Outside the Magic Circle, Durr describes the process that made her aware of the gender discrimination implicit in the patriarchal southern ideology, and how this realization eventually led her to abhor racial segregation and the ideology of white male supremacy. As a consequence, in her memoirs she presents herself as a rebel facing the social ostracism resulting from her determination to fight against gender and racial discrimination in the Jim Crow South. This article delves into Durr’s composed textual self as a rebel, and suggests the existence of a crack in it, rooted in her inability to discern the real effects of white male supremacy on the domestic realm and in her subsequent blindness to the reality behind the mammy stereotype.

scholarly journals Blue Mountain and Blue Roses: An Exploration of the Feminine Psyche in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 192-205
Author(s):  
Namitha V. S
Keyword(s):  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Role Expectations ◽  
Tennessee Williams ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Blue Mountain ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Southern Belle ◽  
Close Study ◽  
Glass Menagerie ◽  
The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams, the remarkably outstanding American dramatist of the 1920s, through his plays, presents a marked concern for the identity crisis a woman faces. He projects the crisis arising out of the conflict between a woman’s own aspirations and the traditional role expectations. The Glass Menagerie (1945) depicts the life of two women- Amanda Wingfield and her daughter Laura Wingfield. Amanda is the typical Southern belle that suffered a reversal of economic and social fortune, who withdraws from reality into fantasy. Her daughter Laura, the physically and emotionally crippled heroine of the play is a self-less character who does not speak as much of others. She is extra-ordinarily sensitive and delicate; and her cripple isolates herself into her own illusory world with her own glass menagerie. This paper is an attempt to close study the women protagonists in this play and to reveal that they are a combination of a particular personality type. Williams seems to be interested in the personal and psychological aspects of his women. This paper tries to analyse the psyche of these women and prove that they seem to be more complex and complicated than portrayed in the work.

Paradox and Pedagogy in The Stanley Parable

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-197
Author(s):  
Antranig Arek Sarian
Keyword(s):  
Programmed Learning ◽  
Interactive Narratives ◽  
Theatre Of The Absurd

The Stanley Parable uses metafiction and elements borrowed from the “Theatre of the Absurd” to reveal a didactic, pedagogical, and despotic voice that lies below many of the choices found within gamebooks, literary games, and interactive narratives. The satirical character of the “narrator,” coupled with the game’s use of paradoxes, makes choosers aware of the catechistic structure that many didactic choices employ. This pedagogic choice structure has its roots in the TutorText series of programmed learning novels—a structure repeated (and hidden) by the Choose Your Own Adventure-style gamebooks that followed and that is subsequently parodied in The Stanley Parable. The Stanley Parable itself provides players with choices that lack a solution, with choices such as the “two doors” embodying a juxtaposition between the closed choices of TutorText and the open choices presented by the game.

The Theatre of the Absurd

The Absurd ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 8-13
Author(s):  
Arnold P. Hinchliffe
Keyword(s):  
Theatre Of The Absurd
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