SELF-DERISIVE THEATRICALISATION OF IDENTITY: IMAGOLOGICAL CLICHĖS IN THE ROMANIAN DRAMATURGY
SELF-DERISIVE THEATRICALISATION OF IDENTITY: IMAGOLOGICAL CLICHĖS IN THE ROMANIAN DRAMATURGY
Author(s): Laura PavelSubject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: imagology; the mythology of identity; imaginary self-reconstruction; ideological censorship; the interior Other; patriotic-historical plays vs. inter textual dramatic parodies; theatrical counter-myths: the imaginary of the vampire.
Summary/Abstract: The article centres upon the analysis of the dramaturgy that is said to have had a subversive ground within the context of the Romanian totalitarian political regime. I critically argue that the rewriting of certain canonical identitary myths within theatre adds important layers of symbolic significance to the imaginary construct of Romanian cultural identity, before and after 1989. The invention of new myths of identity in Postcommunism is analysed through the symptomatic Gothic-Postmodern imaginary of the vampire, seen as a fictional echo of the interior Other of a whole community.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Dramatica
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 25-34
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English