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CARREFOURS RHIZOMATIQUES DE L’ÉCRITURE DANS LE THÉÂTRE DE WAJDI MOUAWAD LE SANG DES PROMESSES ET SEULS
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- Author / Creator
- Hussein,Mai M.L.
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At the crossroad of themes and cultures, Wajdi Mouawad's writing combines an array of artistic genres ranging from the ancient myth to most contemporary techniques of performance. Among the writing of this playwright, dramaturge, stage director and actor, we have chosen to study four plays grouped under the title Le Sang des Promesses, that includes Littoral, Incendies, Forêts and Ciels in addition to the play Seuls that constitutes a "crossroad" in which intersects different forms of writing and staging.
The purpose of this study is to explore questions of identity and identification, trauma, witnessing, violence, and alterity in addition to techniques of polyphony, modes of expression, various mediums as they come together in the work of Mouawad at the intersection of the textual and the performative. In these play texts studied, Mouawad questions space, time, narrative and the body while highlighting the complex intersection of the lived, the mediated, the vocal, the gestural and the embodied in performance. Methodologically, the work uses a deleuzian and guattarian approach in particular concepts of "rhizome" with its principles (connection and heterogenity, multiplicity, asignifying rupture, cartography and decalcomania), in addition to the concepts of line of flight, deterritorialization and body without organs, as they allow us to create bridges between various disciplines, perspectives and techniques while rejecting all predetermined structures and favoring the unpredictable and the non-hierarchical. -
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- Graduation date
- Fall 2014
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- Type of Item
- Thesis
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- Degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
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- License
- This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.