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Boseman And Lena (LIMINALITY : IN BETWEEN SPACE OR STATE - SUSPENSION …
Boseman And Lena
LIMINALITY : IN BETWEEN SPACE OR STATE - SUSPENSION compared to a mobiles strip- constantly moving but not going anywhere. They are liminal in their racial identity - also in their constant moving - Lena herself doesn't know she is - L is liminal because she is a women and is coloured, she has no power - she is more liminal as she can not be considered a real women as can't carry children Boseman places her in a liminal state because he recognise and doesn't recognise her
Lena feels she has an elevated status due to Outa not understanding- she treated him like a thing and feels she is better even though she is lower in the hierarchy - Outa gives her the courage to rebel against boseman
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Hybridity: A cross between ie 2 races- coloured - A cross between English and Afrikaans in the play : Play is post-colonial because it switch languages- what is left behind
Liminal seen through gender, race(being coloured) and class(hierarchy, coloureds have no community)
Layered Play: Part of the theatre of the absurd- minimalist - it is a tragic comedy - there is no hope for B&L
Layered Play- Bearing witness- audience to them all- Otha to Lena, Lena to Boseman
TRYING TO FIND PLACE- IT IS CHAOTIC trying to find where they have been, where they are going, who am I? existential crisis - don't have place they live in space - OPENING AND CLOSING LINES SHOW HOW THEY ARE CONSTANTLY IN SPACE
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Apartheid is post-colonial : his plays have a huge focus on Apartheid- this is NB in Boseman and Lena
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Shows effect of Apartheid on a few individuals : too white to be black and too black to be white : they do not fit in anywhere... have no sense of community
Staging: Minimalist- has a structural and thematic function - sense of terrible physical and spiritual destitution: Bosman and Lena are in a constant circle- going from point A to point B- they are stagnant but illusion of movement, belonging and identity
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Drama- very sparse- author tells reader or actor very little about characters, usually only stage directions : open to interpretation
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Lena is a composite character- made up of different parts- she is complex - she is trying to uncover her identity which is NB to the absurd - SHE WANTS TO BE VALIDATED
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SPIVAK
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THE SUBALTERN IS THE SUBJECT IN SOCIETY WHO DOES NOT HAVE ACCESS TO POWER AND INFRUSTRUCTURE TO BE HEARD
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