Reclaiming voices and disputing authority: a feminist dialogics approach in reading Kee Thuan Chye’s plays
Kee Thuan Chye in all four of his selected plays has appropriated and reimagined history by giving it a flair of contemporaneity in order to draw a parallel with the current socio-political climate. He is a firm believer of freedom of expression and racial equality. His plays become his didactic t...
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ukm-97112016-12-14T06:50:36Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9711/ Reclaiming voices and disputing authority: a feminist dialogics approach in reading Kee Thuan Chye’s plays Erda Wati Bakar, Noraini Md Yusof, Ravichandran Vengadasamy, Kee Thuan Chye in all four of his selected plays has appropriated and reimagined history by giving it a flair of contemporaneity in order to draw a parallel with the current socio-political climate. He is a firm believer of freedom of expression and racial equality. His plays become his didactic tool to express his dismay and frustration towards the folly and malfunctions in the society. He believes that everybody needs to rise and eliminate their fear from speaking their minds regardless of race, status and gender. In all four of his plays, Kee has featured and centralised his female characters by empowering them with voice and agency. Kee gives fair treatment to his women by painting them as strong, liberated, determined and fearless beings. Armed with the literary tools of feminist dialogics which is derived from Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism and strategies of historical re-visioning, this study investigates and explores Kee’s representations of his female characters and the various ways that he has liberated them from being passive and silent beings as they contest the norms, values and even traditions. It is found that the dissecting voices of Kee’s female characters contain veiled messages and it is dialogic in nature. Their voices are caught in between opposition and struggle which echoes Kee’s manifested resistance towards the authority’s establishment of power. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9711/1/10656-33904-1-PB.pdf Erda Wati Bakar, and Noraini Md Yusof, and Ravichandran Vengadasamy, (2016) Reclaiming voices and disputing authority: a feminist dialogics approach in reading Kee Thuan Chye’s plays. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 22 (1). pp. 97-109. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l |
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Kee Thuan Chye in all four of his selected plays has appropriated and reimagined history by giving it a flair of
contemporaneity in order to draw a parallel with the current socio-political climate. He is a firm believer of
freedom of expression and racial equality. His plays become his didactic tool to express his dismay and
frustration towards the folly and malfunctions in the society. He believes that everybody needs to rise and
eliminate their fear from speaking their minds regardless of race, status and gender. In all four of his plays, Kee
has featured and centralised his female characters by empowering them with voice and agency. Kee gives fair
treatment to his women by painting them as strong, liberated, determined and fearless beings. Armed with the
literary tools of feminist dialogics which is derived from Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism and strategies of
historical re-visioning, this study investigates and explores Kee’s representations of his female characters and
the various ways that he has liberated them from being passive and silent beings as they contest the norms,
values and even traditions. It is found that the dissecting voices of Kee’s female characters contain veiled
messages and it is dialogic in nature. Their voices are caught in between opposition and struggle which echoes
Kee’s manifested resistance towards the authority’s establishment of power. |
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Reclaiming voices and disputing authority:
a feminist dialogics approach in reading Kee Thuan Chye’s plays |
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Reclaiming voices and disputing authority:
a feminist dialogics approach in reading Kee Thuan Chye’s plays |
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Reclaiming voices and disputing authority:
a feminist dialogics approach in reading Kee Thuan Chye’s plays |
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Reclaiming voices and disputing authority:
a feminist dialogics approach in reading Kee Thuan Chye’s plays |
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Reclaiming voices and disputing authority:
a feminist dialogics approach in reading Kee Thuan Chye’s plays |
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reclaiming voices and disputing authority:
a feminist dialogics approach in reading kee thuan chye’s plays |
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Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM |
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