어둠속에서 멜로드라마 읽기: 린 노티지의 『루인드』
Reading Romance in the Dark: Lynn Nottage’s Ruined
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A Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage’s play Ruined (2009) dramatized factual descriptions on Congo in tragic turmoil while achieving literary and dramatic significance at the same time. Located between a small mining town and a forest, there is a small bar, or a brothel, that becomes the only shelter for ruined women surviving civil war. As this equivocal place—a shelter for those women and a comfort zone for both government forces and rebel ones—turns into a hopeful, romantic place for a last surviving couple in the end of the stage, many drama critics have heavily condemned this improbable romantic, rosy happy ending that belies bleak reality in Congo. This paper aims to confront these negative, pessimistic reviews regarding Ruined and to win the play’s rightful evaluation back, based on the subversive power of romance claimed by many female critics such as Janice Radway. Centering on the ending and female characters in the play, this paper explores how romance is capable of providing hopeful yet subversive connotations and how limited views on romance and reading romance can draw possibilities for these ruined women on stage.
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A Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage’s play Ruined (2009) dramatized factual descriptions on Congo in tragic turmoil while achieving literary and dramatic significance at the same time. Located between a small mining town and a forest, there is a small bar, or a brothel, that becomes the only shelter for ruined women surviving civil war. As this equivocal place—a shelter for those women and a comfort zone for both government forces and rebel ones—turns into a hopeful, romantic place for a last surviving couple in the end of the stage, many drama critics have heavily condemned this improbable romantic, rosy happy ending that belies bleak reality in Congo. This paper aims to confront these negative, pessimistic reviews regarding Ruined and to win the play’s rightful evaluation back, based on the subversive power of romance claimed by many female critics such as Janice Radway. Centering on the ending and female characters in the play, this paper explores how romance is capable of providing hopeful yet subversive connotations and how limited views on romance and reading romance can draw possibilities for these ruined women on stage.
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- 최성희, "수행성과 퍼포먼스의 생산적 간극: 『인형의 집』에 나타난 입센의 드라마터지를 중심으로", 영미문학페미니즘, 20(2), pp.253~277 (2012), 한국영미문학페미니즘학회
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