Desire, Misogyny, and Official Power in Mark Dornford-May's U-Carmen eKhayelitsha.

Autor: Lewsen, Simon
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Zdroj: Safundi; Jul-Oct2012, Vol. 13 Issue 3/4, p231-249, 19p
Abstrakt: The article critiques the film "U-Carmen eKhayelitsha," by South African director Mark Dornford-May, a South African adaptation of composer George Bizet's opera "Carmen." It discusses the effect of context on individual freedoms, the interaction of sex and love with state-sanctioned power, and the feminist and misogynist discourses in "Carmen." It comments on the roles of ethnicity, urbanism, and ruralism on the characters.
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