Orientalism in M. Butterfly (A+ 받은 자료)
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M. Butterfly에서 드러난 오리엔탈리즘에 관한 짧은 논문입니다. MLA형식으로 작성했습니다.
목차
1. BRIEF SUMMARY OF M. BUTTERFLY
2. ORIENTALISM IN M. BUTTERFLY
3. DID M. BUTTERFLY ACHIEVE ITS GOAL?
4. CONCLUSION
5. Works Cited
본문내용
In the mid-80s, the news about the love and the marriage of a French man and a Chinese woman staggered the world. After the 20 years of marriage, it turned out that the wife was actually a Chinese male spy disguised as a woman, and the husband claimed that he didn’t know his wife’s real gender (Wadler). People wondered why the husband couldn’t distinguish his wife’s gender and made a lot of assumptions about it. Based on this story, David Henry Hwang wrote a play called M. Butterfly. The writer attributed the reason for the husband Bernard Boursicot’s misperception of his wife’s gender to his fantasy of the Oriental woman and wanted to criticize the Orientalist view (Baek 5). But did Hwang truly succeed in drawing attention to the stereotypes of the Orientalism and making audience aware of it? Or did he fail to get his meaning over to the audience, such that the play, in unintended irony, reinforces those stereotypes to its audience?
참고 자료
Baek, Mi-Hyang. A Study of David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly. Ewha Womans University, 1997. Print.
Cooperman, Robert. “New Theatrical Statements: Asian-Western Mergers in the Early Plays of David Henry Hwang” Staggering Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama (1995): 201-213. Print.
Hwang, David Henry. Interview with Marty Moss-Coane. Interviews with Contemporary American Playwrights, By Philip C. Kolin and Colby H. Kullman. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996. Print.
Hwang, David Henry. M. Butterfly. New York: Plume, 1986. Print.
Kerr, Douglas. “David Henry Hwang and the Revenge of Madame Butterfly.” Asian Voices in English (1991): 44-49. Print.
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Wadler, Joyce. “The True Story of M. Butterfly; the Spy Who Fell in Love with a Shadow. ”New York Times. 15 August 1993. Web. 26 March 2014.
Wen, Songfeng. "The Subversion of the Oriental Stereotype in M. Butterfly." English Language And Literature Studies; Vol. 3 (2013): 44-49. Print.
