INVESTIGATING STEREOTYPES IN THE PORTRAYAL OF COMMUNITY DIVIDES IN EUGENE O’NEILL’S DRAMA Cover Image

INVESTIGATING STEREOTYPES IN THE PORTRAYAL OF COMMUNITY DIVIDES IN EUGENE O’NEILL’S DRAMA
INVESTIGATING STEREOTYPES IN THE PORTRAYAL OF COMMUNITY DIVIDES IN EUGENE O’NEILL’S DRAMA

Author(s): Adriana Carolina Bulz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Academiei Forțelor Aeriene „Henri Coandă”
Keywords: prejudice; African-American; Irishness; liminality; realism; melodrama

Summary/Abstract: My paper will investigate the use of stereotypes in Eugene O’Neill’s drama, focusing on the representation of African American and Irish characters. I will discuss various critical views that form a debate around the realistic representation of such characters and the purposes for which such marginal figures appear as they do. Additionally I will address the issue of community divides and the struggle for integration of the minority groups promoted through dramatic discourse as well as by performance artists.

  • Issue Year: 2/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 223-226
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: English
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