Deconstructing Stereotypes: Ed Bullins' the Taking of Miss Janie

Afro-Amerikan oyun yazarı Ed Bullins, 1960'larda politik görüşleriyle öne çıkmış, önemli bir yazardır. 1974-75 yılları Tiyatro Eleştirmenleri'nin En İyi Oyun Ödülünü kazanan The Taking of Miss Janie adlı oyununda, Bullins, bir yandan altmışlı yıllara damgasını vuran çeşitli olay ve düşünceleri dramatize ederken, diğer yandan ırklar arasındaki ilişkileri inceler. Oyunun geneline hakim olan şiddet ve yıkıcılığın yarattığı karamsar havaya rağmen, bu çalışma, oyundaki sevgi ve insanlık adına umut veren anlara dikkat çekecektir.

Ed Bullins'in "The Taking of Miss Janie" Adlı Oyununda Kalıpların Yıkılması

African-American playwright Ed Bullins is one of the most significant figures to emerge from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. His 1975 play The Taking of Miss Janie is a dramatic portrait of the specific events and ideas that created the 1960s, and their impact on the individual consciousnesses of the characters. The play brings into the foreground many issues related to race and ethnicity in America. Even though the general tone of The Taking of Miss Janie is one of violence and gloom, this reading focuses on those moments where love and human affection outshine the sense of destruction predominant in the play.

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