THE REJECTION OF CRUEL OPTIMISM IN FRENCH CONTEMPORARY THEATER: TROIS PIÈCES D’INITIATION

dc.contributor.advisorEades, Carolineen_US
dc.contributor.authorMcMahon, Morganen_US
dc.contributor.departmentFrench Language and Literatureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-05T05:31:33Z
dc.date.available2020-10-05T05:31:33Z
dc.date.issued2020en_US
dc.description.abstractMy 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.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/8trr-yfqf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/26488
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledFrench literatureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledContemporary Theateren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFrenchen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledInitiationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledOptimismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTheateren_US
dc.titleTHE REJECTION OF CRUEL OPTIMISM IN FRENCH CONTEMPORARY THEATER: TROIS PIÈCES D’INITIATIONen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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