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Staging Post-feminism in Young Jean Lee’s Untitled Feminist Show

  • Journal of Modern English Drama
  • Abbr : JMBARD
  • 2020, 33(2), pp.87-103
  • Publisher : 한국현대영미드라마학회
  • Research Area : Humanities > English Language and Literature > English Literature > Contemporary English Drama
  • Received : July 14, 2020
  • Accepted : August 13, 2020
  • Published : August 31, 2020

Eunha Na 1

1서울대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

Staging Post-feminism in Young Jean Lee’s Untitled Feminist Show Abstract Na,Eunha(SeoulNationalUniv.) This essay examines Young Jean Lee’s 2012 play Untitled Feminist Show within the emerging discourses of post-identity theater. While Lee’s play evokes the legacies of feminist performance art in the 1970s, its political and aesthetic expressions of femaleness and feminism suggest a differing vision of feminist future. Focusing on the theatricality of female bodies in display and the fluidity of their assumed identities throughout Untitled Feminist Show, I suggest that the play’s post-feminist aesthetic is a performative expression of an Asian American female artist’s resistance to the identity-based theater anchored in such notions of gender, ethnicity, and race.

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