Gender and Race Trouble: The Emperor Jones by The Wooster Group
This paper is a study of The Wooster Group’s staging of identity-related tensions in Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones. Using Judith Butler’s theories on performativity as an analytical framework, this paper shows how Elizabeth LeCompte’s iconoclastic American company deconstructs O’Neill’s 1920 wo...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:angles_2176 https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.2176 urn:doi:10.4000/angles.2176 en https://journals.openedition.org/angles/2176 2020-07-16T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/9n0x https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Gender and Race Trouble: The Emperor Jones by The Wooster Group Angles Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2274-2042 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles Jouve, Emeline performance performativité théâtre genre théâtre américain race O’Neill Eugene Wooster Group (The) Butler Judith performance performativity theatre gender American theatre race O’Neill Eugene Wooster Group (The) Butler Judith This paper is a study of The Wooster Group’s staging of identity-related tensions in Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones. Using Judith Butler’s theories on performativity as an analytical framework, this paper shows how Elizabeth LeCompte’s iconoclastic American company deconstructs O’Neill’s 1920 work to “trouble” the traditional configurations of both gender and race. By playing with the codes of representation, The Wooster Group sheds light on the artificiality of the conventional binary system opposing the masculine to the feminine and Whites to Blacks. As they subvert traditional signs and symbols, The Wooster Group creates an “aesthetic of resistance,” this paper argues, opening onto a reconfiguration of gender and race identities. Cet article s’intéresse à la façon dont le Wooster Group met en scène les problématiques liés à la construction d’identités genrées et raciales dans The Emperor Jones de Eugene O’Neill. Convoquant les théories de Judith Butler sur la performativité, cette étude démontre comment la compagnie américaine iconoclaste fondée par Elizabeth LeCompte déconstruit l’œuvre originale de 1920 pour venir semer le « trouble », selon l’expression de Butler dans Gender Trouble, dans les configurations traditionnelles des genres et de ce que les Américains définissent comme « races. » The Wooster Group met en avant le caractère artificiel des conventions sociales qui opposent le féminin au masculin, les blancs aux noirs, en subvertissant les codes de représentation. La compagnie se joue alors des signifiants et des symboles et crée une « esthétique de résistance » ouvrant des perspectives sur une possible reconfiguration des identités par-delà le système binaire normatif. |
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This paper is a study of The Wooster Group’s staging of identity-related tensions in Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones. Using Judith Butler’s theories on performativity as an analytical framework, this paper shows how Elizabeth LeCompte’s iconoclastic American company deconstructs O’Neill’s 1920 work to “trouble” the traditional configurations of both gender and race. By playing with the codes of representation, The Wooster Group sheds light on the artificiality of the conventional binary system opposing the masculine to the feminine and Whites to Blacks. As they subvert traditional signs and symbols, The Wooster Group creates an “aesthetic of resistance,” this paper argues, opening onto a reconfiguration of gender and race identities. |
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