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  1. Caryl Phillips' Foreigners: Three English Lives als kollektive Biographie des schwarzen Britannien
    Author: Takors, Jonas; Englisches Seminar 1: Institut für Englische Sprache und Literatur
    Published: 2008

    Zusammenfassung: Seit den neunziger Jahren ist Großbritannien auf eine Re-Konstruktion seiner multiethnischen Vergangenheit bedacht. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht, wie der Autor Cary Phillips in Foreigners: Three English Lives die Leben dreier... more

     

    Zusammenfassung: Seit den neunziger Jahren ist Großbritannien auf eine Re-Konstruktion seiner multiethnischen Vergangenheit bedacht. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht, wie der Autor Cary Phillips in Foreigners: Three English Lives die Leben dreier bisher Randgestalten schwarzer britischer Geschichte - Francis Barber, Randy Turpin und David Oluwale - in den laufenden Erinnerungsdiskurs zurückführt. Nach einer Einführung in Astrid Erlls erinnerungshistorische Narratologie, die zwischen Literaturtheorie einerseits und der kulturwissenschaftlichen Gedächtnistheorie andererseits vermittelt, und einer kurzen Exposition der Hauptthemen in Phillips' Werk steht der Roman selbst im Fokus der Analyse. Mit Erlls Rhetorik des kollektiven Gedächtnisses können die drei an sich voneinander unabhängigen Erzählungen als Elemente einer Textkonfiguration verstanden werden. Der Autor unterwandert die Konventionen des Genres Biographie und demonstriert so die Singularität und zugleich Unanpassbarkeit der Lebensgeschichten an hegemoniale Erfolgsnarrative Black Britains. Der Erinnerungsprozess wird so selbstreflexiv gestaltet, dass der Leser intradiegetisch wie auch auf einer Metaebene zum Nachdenken über die Funktionsweisen und Unzulänglichkeiten des Genres Biographie als einer der Stützen des kollektiven Gedächtnisses angeregt wird. Die Auseinandersetzung mit marginalisierten Elementen schwarzer Geschichte betont dabei die Notwendigkeit eines offenen Erinnerungsdiskurses, der auch Konsequenzen für die Erinnerungsarbeit hat, wie die neuen Diskussionen um den dritten biographee, David Oluwale, zeigen ; Zusammenfassung: Since the 1990s, Great Britain has been keen to (re)-discover its multicultural past. In Foreigners: Three English Lives Caryl Phillips aims to revive the memory of three forgotten characters of black history - Francis Barber, Randy Turpin and David Oluwale. A quick survey of Phillips oeuvre's main themes as well as an introduction to the narratology of cultural memory as developed by Astrid Erll form the background of the investigation. Using Erll's theoretical framework, the three different stories can be shown to contribute to one purpose. They undermine the genre conventions of biography-writing and question the assimilation of unique lives into a new master narrative of Britain as a multicultural nation. The very process of remembering is shaped in a way that both on an intradiegetic and meta-level the reader comes to think about the mechanics and shortcomings of the genre biography as one of the pillars of collective memory. The occupation with marginalised elements of black history stresses the necessity of opening up history-narratives with all its consequences for memory work, e.g. Leeds attempt to face city's role in the death of David Oluwale

     
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    Language: German
    Media type: Undefined
    Format: Online
    DDC Categories: 820
    Subjects: Metabiographie; Erinnerungsnarratologie; Phillips; Caryl; collective memory; metafiction; metabiography; Black history; masterThesis
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  2. Towards delogocentrism : a study of the dramatic works of Samuel Beckett, Tom Stoppard and Caryl Churchill ; In Richtung Delogozentrismus : eine Studie der dramatischen Arbeiten von Samuel Beckett, Tom Stoppard und Caryl Churchill
    Author: Vaziri Nasab Kermany, Fereshteh
    Published: 2009

    The relation between reality and language, the instability of language as a signification system, the representation crisis, and the borders of interpretation are the controversial issues that have engaged not only philosophers, but also many... more

     

    The relation between reality and language, the instability of language as a signification system, the representation crisis, and the borders of interpretation are the controversial issues that have engaged not only philosophers, but also many authors, translators, and literary critics. Some philosophers like Derrida accuse Western thinking of being obsessed with binary oppositions. In Derrida's view, Western tradition resorts to external references as God, truth, origin, center and reason to stabilize the signification system. Since these concepts lack an internal sense and there is no transcendental signified that can fix these signifiers, language turns to an instable system by means of which no fixed meaning can be created. Many authors like Beckett, Stoppard, and Caryl Churchill also noticed this impossibility of language. While Derrida's deconstructive approach to this crisis has an epistemological nature, these playwrights present an aesthetic solution by turning the deconstructive potential of language against itself in text and performance. This dissertation aims at exploring their performing methods and dramatic texts to demonstrate how their delogocentric strategies work. By analyzing their plays, I will examine if their use of signifiers that have no references in reality, intentional misconceptions, disintegrated subjectivities, decentered narratives, and experimental performances can help them undermine the prevailing logocentrism of Western thought. The examination of the change in aesthetic strategies from Beckett, who belongs to earlier stages of post modernism, to Caryl Churchill, who should perform in a globalized world with increasing dominance of speed and information, is another aim of this research. In my view,Beckett's obsession with unspeakable, absurdity, and disintegration of subjectivity develops to Stoppard's language games, metadrama, and anti-representation and culminates in Churchill's anti-narrative texts and pluralistic performances. The monophony of Beckett's dramatic texts is ...

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
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    DDC Categories: 820
    Subjects: Dissertation; Beckett; Samuel; Churchill; Caryl; Stoppard; Tom; Derrida; Jacques; Logozentrismus; Dekonstruktion
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