Author/Authors
BEŞE, Ahmet Ataturk University - Faculty of Letters - English Language and Literature Department, Turkey
Title Of Article
Story-telling and Subjectivity in the Selected Dramas of August Wilson and David Rabe
شماره ركورد
43181
Abstract
The tensions between past and present, self and other, life and death, and the topics as confusion, self-doubt, and self-questioning in an unstable and infinitely changeable state of insights fill the works of contemporary American dramatists by means of story-telling. . Story-telling as dramatic narrative can specifically be seen in the dramas of both August Wilson and David Rabe. Their plays include contemporary forms of story-telling in order to reveal fractured and fragmented characters and their subjectivity. Rabe employs stories, especially in his famous Vietnam trilogy; meanwhile storytelling as part of the oral narrative experiences of African-Americans is the central prominence to the development of August Wilson’s plays. This study attempts to reflect the function of story-telling in the selected dramas of the authors under discussion, and to analyze how the characters reveal themselves and their subjectivity in stories.
From Page
71
NaturalLanguageKeyword
Story , telling , Subjectivity , American Drama , African , American , Vietnam War
JournalTitle
Journal Of Graduate School Of Social Sciences
To Page
78
JournalTitle
Journal Of Graduate School Of Social Sciences
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