@article{ART001131227},
author={Jung,Byung-Eon},
title={Fantasy Space and the Subversive Desire of "the Uncanny" in African American Drama},
journal={Journal of Modern English Drama},
issn={1226-3397},
year={2005},
volume={18},
number={3},
pages={165-187}
TY - JOUR
AU - Jung,Byung-Eon
TI - Fantasy Space and the Subversive Desire of "the Uncanny" in African American Drama
JO - Journal of Modern English Drama
PY - 2005
VL - 18
IS - 3
PB - 한국현대영미드라마학회
SP - 165
EP - 187
SN - 1226-3397
AB - This essay, while referring to commentary about the uncanny more generally as one of the most powerful and distinctive modes of fantasy, examines its social and political implications for African Americans in their struggle for black liberation in relation to the return of the repressed in Adrienne Kennedy's A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White, George Wolfe's The Colored Museum, and August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. Tzvetan Todorov has carried out the first sustained structural approach to the literature of the fantastic, and critics have assumed that he ignored the possibility of its political interpretations in relation to the other's unconscious. An analysis of African American drama, however, reveals that the uncanny's relation to the unconscious is much more politically complicated than has generally been supposed. The plays are constructed as an elaborate counter-discourse for expressing African Americans' subversive desire against white ideology through the uncanny. They are a rewriting of African American experiences through a "revision and repetition" of classical white and black writings. Revisionary and corrective, African American plays appropriate various modes of the uncanny as the strategy for representing African Americans' subversive desire. Because much of the plays stresses the return of the repressed in terms of transformation, fantastic travel, sculpture, ghosts, spirit, and double, a reading that insists on African Americans' subversive desire becomes possible.
KW - the uncanny;fantasy;Adrienne Kennedy;George Wolfe;August Wilson;African American drama;return of the repressed;desire
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Jung,Byung-Eon. (2005). Fantasy Space and the Subversive Desire of "the Uncanny" in African American Drama. Journal of Modern English Drama, 18(3), 165-187.
Jung,Byung-Eon. 2005, "Fantasy Space and the Subversive Desire of "the Uncanny" in African American Drama", Journal of Modern English Drama, vol.18, no.3 pp.165-187.
Jung,Byung-Eon "Fantasy Space and the Subversive Desire of "the Uncanny" in African American Drama" Journal of Modern English Drama 18.3 pp.165-187 (2005) : 165.
Jung,Byung-Eon. Fantasy Space and the Subversive Desire of "the Uncanny" in African American Drama. 2005; 18(3), 165-187.
Jung,Byung-Eon. "Fantasy Space and the Subversive Desire of "the Uncanny" in African American Drama" Journal of Modern English Drama 18, no.3 (2005) : 165-187.
Jung,Byung-Eon. Fantasy Space and the Subversive Desire of "the Uncanny" in African American Drama. Journal of Modern English Drama, 18(3), 165-187.
Jung,Byung-Eon. Fantasy Space and the Subversive Desire of "the Uncanny" in African American Drama. Journal of Modern English Drama. 2005; 18(3) 165-187.
Jung,Byung-Eon. Fantasy Space and the Subversive Desire of "the Uncanny" in African American Drama. 2005; 18(3), 165-187.
Jung,Byung-Eon. "Fantasy Space and the Subversive Desire of "the Uncanny" in African American Drama" Journal of Modern English Drama 18, no.3 (2005) : 165-187.
