SCREENING GENDER IDENTITIES AND OPHELIA: VICTIMHOOD AND FEMINISM

Autores

  • Alexa Alice Joubin GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

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https://doi.org/10.18305/scripta%20uniandra.v17i1.1411

Resumo

Shakespeare’s Ophelia is an iconic character with conflicting myths. She is both an innocent “rose of May” and a sexually aware singer in act 4. Both her lyric sufferings and her suicide-as-resistance to the patriarchy enabled contrasting interpretations. Asian directors leverage Shakespeare’s own propensity to undermine dominant ideologies of gender in their effort to renew Asian performance traditions. With case studies of three Hamlet films: Haider (India, 2004), The King and the Clown (South Korea, 2005), and Prince of the Himalayas (Tibet, 2006), this article examines how Asian films negotiate ideas of Ophelia as an iconic victim and a feminist voice.

Keywords: Ophelia. Appropriation. Asian cinema. Bollywood. Feminism.

 

DOI: 10.5935/1679-5520.20190001

Biografia do Autor

Alexa Alice Joubin, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Alexa Alice Joubin is Professor of English at George Washington University where she co-founded and co-directs the Digital Humanities Institute. She was appointed the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Global Shakespeare studies at Queen Mary University of London and University of Warwick (2014-2015) and the ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library (2015-2016). Her latest book is Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation (co-edited with Elizabeth Rivlin; Palgrave, 2014). She is co-general editor of The Shakespearean International Yearbook.

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DOI: 10.5935/1679-5520.20190001

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2019-06-07

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v. 17 n. 1 (2019): Questões de gênero na literatura estrangeira

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