Hojatolla Borzabadi Farahani1 & Mariam Beyad2
1Department of English language, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran
2Associate Professor, University of Tehran. Email: n_bfarahani@yahoo.com
Volume 12, Number 2, April-June, 2020 I Full Text PDF
DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v12n2.16
Abstract:
The present study tends to explore the constitution of power and its formative effects on David Mamet’s play, Oleanna, a very controversial work dealing with sexual harassment and political correctness. The analysis is going to be done applying views and results of Judith Butler’s notion of gender and identity trouble to the play first through explanation of related key concepts like difference, decentering, subject and language, and then utilizing them to analyze the roots of sudden, surprising transformations and role-reversals of the involved characters, John and Carol, through the three acts. Furthermore, it is tried to find out the causes of unavoidable violence within the contexts of the relations going between the characters.
Keywords: gender, identity, difference, decentering, performative, understanding, violence, discourses, language
