THE REJECTION OF CRUEL OPTIMISM IN FRENCH CONTEMPORARY THEATER: TROIS PIÈCES D’INITIATION
| dc.contributor.advisor | Eades, Caroline | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | McMahon, Morgan | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | French Language and Literature | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-05T05:31:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-10-05T05:31:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | My doctoral research explores the effects of family trauma as presented in French contemporary theater, situating three plays written by Xavier Durringer, Jean-Luc Lagarce and Marie Ndiaye within the context of Lauren Berlant’s theory of Cruel Optimism. While Berlant points to a universal series of obstacles as proof of the current inability to achieve “the good life” through “lively, durable intimacy”, Durringer, Lagarce and Ndiaye depict a way through these obstacles as a means of initiation and agency, demonstrating an optimistic trend in French theater. | en_US |
| dc.identifier | https://doi.org/10.13016/8trr-yfqf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/26488 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject.pqcontrolled | French literature | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Contemporary Theater | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | French | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Initiation | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Optimism | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Theater | en_US |
| dc.title | THE REJECTION OF CRUEL OPTIMISM IN FRENCH CONTEMPORARY THEATER: TROIS PIÈCES D’INITIATION | en_US |
| dc.type | Dissertation | en_US |
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