Word: constructions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issues than Butterfly. Butterfly attempts to compose a theory of the other which takes into account racism, sexism, imperialism--and tries to create a system in which all these factors work together. This play is basically about race, about whether race is real or mythological, whether it's a construct that has any usefulness...
This idea of difference as construct, it's been contemplated in other places, Prelude to a Kiss on Broadway, the film, "The Crying Game." Do you think there's a high level of interest, receptivity, for theorizing about constructions of other...
...question of what are the politics we live by, what are the roles. Whether they're sexual roles or ethnic roles, there's a whole lot of moving around right now between what were heretofore pretty inviolate categories. I mean, the whole nation that face is a construct which is increasingly useless I don't mean to deny the importance of culture, I think people come from different cultures, and cultures, like families, predispose one to certain behavior--I just think that increasingly the notion of race and culture don't go hand and hand...
Director Robert J. Bouffier's production of Irma Vep features wonderful acting and clever bits of direction. It simple set, lighting and sound designs construct a perfectly eerie mood...
...guilt of the survivor is a familiar psychological construct. That observation could be applied to the novel, but would not do justice to Begley's imagination and authority as a writer. Ben's feelings about his escape from the Holocaust and his transformation into an affluent non-Jewish Jew in America are complex and ironic. He is too intelligent to misinterpret his problem but too emotionally bottled up to solve it. Begley shares some of his resume with Ben, but he has not written an autobiography. The Man Who Was Late is a what-if novel -- specifically, What...