Becoming An-Other. An Ecofeminist Critique of Contemporary Canadian Drama

  1. Voyer, Véronique
unter der Leitung von:
  1. Manuela Palacios González Doktorvater/Doktormutter

Universität der Verteidigung: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Fecha de defensa: 19 von April von 2022

Gericht:
  1. Juan Ignacio Oliva Cruz Präsident
  2. Laura María Lojo Rodríguez Sekretär/in
  3. Lorraine Kerslake Young Vocal

Art: Dissertation

Zusammenfassung

This dissertation analyses six Canadian plays through an ecofeminist lens. The study, which focuses on stories written by francophone, anglophone, and Indigenous playwrights, attempts to discover: 1) In what ways do the plays show the intertwining of ecocide, colonialism, gender, and racial inequalities in Canada? And 2) what new tropes and theatrical forms emerge from this political theatre? This research shows that the plays analysed create narrative structures and systems of representation (e.g., of gender, of human/nonhuman relationships) that stress the entangling of racial and gender inequalities in environmental destruction, highlighting the importance of animal studies and decolonial thinking, two aspects sometimes absent from mainstream ecofeminist critique.