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Trauma Drama: Victims’ Traumatic Memories in Kay Adshead’s the Bogus Woman (2001) and Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Credible Witness (2001).

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Klein H.

Gender Studies

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2012

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vol. 11

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issue Supplement

62-73

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In our contemporary society there exists a fascination with trauma and testimony. Thus, my paper looks at traumatised protagonists in the above-mentioned plays that testify to the manifold victimization of asylum seekers. First they were tortured and persecuted in their home countries, and then subjected to new traumatic humiliation in prison-like detention centres in Great Britain. Both plays assume a political position by appealing to the individual conscience of the audience who, through the characters’ outrageous narration, become witnesses to appalling violations of human rights.

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Lilies on the Land – The Forgotten Women’s Land Army of World War II – A Documentary Play

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Klein H.

Gender Studies

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2012

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vol. 11

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issue 1

193-204

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This paper centres on a play directed by Sonia Ritter and produced by the Lions part that portrays an extraordinary event in Britain’s recent history - the Women’s Land Army of World War II. It is based on real evidence given in hundreds of letters and interviews with former Land Girls. The anecdotes of their shared experience and strenuous work are presented by a female quartet - Margie, Peggy, Poppy and Vera - in a sparkling, captivating and emotional way.

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

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Klein H.

Gender Studies

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2013

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vol. 12

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issue 1

230-245

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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

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Female Sex Tourism in the Caribbean – A “Fair Trade” or a New Kind of Colonial Exploitation? – Tanika Gupta’sSugar Mummiesand Debbie Tucker Green’sTrade

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Klein H.

Gender Studies

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2015

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vol. 14

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issue 1

154-170

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The above-mentioned authors offer a challenging and revealing study of the enjoyments and drawbacks of female sex tourism. I examine the interactions between white female tourists and local black men from the context of post-colonialism, asking whether these encounters can be considered a “fair trade” or whether they are the neo-colonising of people in this ex-slave society.

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Trauma Drama: Victims’ Traumatic Memories in Kay Adshead’s the Bogus Woman (2001) and Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Credible Witness (2001).

Lilies on the Land – The Forgotten Women’s Land Army of World War II – A Documentary Play

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

Female Sex Tourism in the Caribbean – A “Fair Trade” or a New Kind of Colonial Exploitation? – Tanika Gupta’sSugar Mummiesand Debbie Tucker Green’sTrade