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| dc.contributor.author | Rowland Chukwuemeka Amaefula | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-03T06:36:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-03T06:36:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-09-?? | |
| dc.description.abstract | Expressions of transgendered behavior in Nigerian drama have mostly been regarded as either comedy or mere feminist assertiveness. They have scarcely been seen as what they really are: acquisition of non-binary identities with which to resist oppression. Since such topics are seen as taboo in most parts of Africa, there is scant academic inquiry on transgender issues in the continent’s literature, especially in drama. In order to open up scholarly discourses in this area, this study uses Judith Butler’s “Gender Performativity,” and then, through textual analysis and close reading, interrogates Stella Oyedepo’s The Rebellion of the Bumpy-Chested (2002), with a view to identifying how characters resist oppression by rejecting culturally-assigned gender roles and dress patterns. It argues further that, in protest plays, characters cross-dress (in itself, a form of performance) to acquire new individualities with which they dislocate the oppressor into an image of frailty, thereby defeating an unfavorable status quo. | en_US |
| dc.identifier | FFC435E8-32C4-130B-5144-131C7D96C7A0 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://rportal.lib.ntnu.edu.tw:80/handle/20.500.12235/109779 | |
| dc.language | 英文 | |
| dc.publisher | 英語學系 | zh_tw |
| dc.publisher | Department of English, NTNU | en_US |
| dc.relation | 45(2)，113-132 | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | 同心圓：文學與文化研究 | zh_tw |
| dc.subject.other | transgender | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | gender | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | performance | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | performativity | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | protest | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | protest drama | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Protest, Performativity, and Transgenderism inStella Oyedepo’s The Rebellion of the Bumpy-Chested | zh_tw |