SHARON POLLOCK’S EARLY HISTORY PLAYS - WALSH

• 영문명: SHARON POLLOCK’S EARLY HISTORY PLAYS - WALSH
• 발행기관: 한국캐나다학회
• 저자명: Tanja Cvetković
• 간행물 정보: 『Asia-Pacific Journal of Canadian Studies (APJCS)』Vol.19 No.1, 1~16쪽, 전체 16쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 지역학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2013.06.30

영문 초록

The paper focuses on one of Sharon Pollock’s early history plays Walsh (1973). By way of close analysis of the play, the author of the paper shows the way Pollock reenacts the past historical event into the present context by merging fact and fiction, by multiple point of view, by fictionalizing the main character, by the active role of the audience, by the use of metadramatic devices. By short comparisons to another historical play of Pollock’s The Komagata Maru Incident (1976), the author proves that Walsh is more a docudrama than “a theatrical impression” of an historical event. The author shows that Walsh belongs to historiographic metafiction and could not be analyzed in a feminist way as Richard Paul Knowles would suggest. The author concludes that Pollock’s special technique of telling the story, of structuring the play and her multiple point of view create a new unique story about the Sioux’s stay in Canada glorifying the life in the prairies in the 1870s and 1880s, the Canadian frontier myth, the myth of the Mounties, etc.

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historiographic metafiction history play multiple point of view metadramatic devices docudrama imaginative truth