FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA’S YERMA (1937) AND RUTH CARTER’S A YEARNING (1999): THE OPPRESSION OF WOMEN THROUGH SPACE AND TIME

• Authors: Hildegard Klein
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

My paper examines Lorca’s Yerma and Carter’s A Yearning and the transposition of the work from a regressive agricultural Andalusia into a traditional urban British-Asian Punjabi community. Though written in different periods and cultures, the two plays illustrate that discrimination and domestic entrapment of women have prevailed. The heroines’ inability to fulfil their socially required roles, to procreate, condemns them to seclusion and desperation with a violent outcome

Keywords

EN

Adaptation; A Yearning; Carter; Lorca; Punjabi community; Yerma

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Gender Studies
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 230-245

Dates

published

2013-12-01

online

2014-02-14

Contributors

author

Hildegard Klein

• University of Málaga, Spain 29071 Málaga, Spain

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/genst-2013-0014