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Metadrama, the poetics of disguise in Alfred Farag's drama of the seventies.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Metadrama, the poetics of disguise in Alfred Farag's drama of the seventies./
Author:	Amin, Dina Ahmed.
Description:	1 online resource (270 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 61-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International61-10A.
Subject:	Theater. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9953501click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780599559561

Metadrama, the poetics of disguise in Alfred Farag's drama of the seventies.
Amin, Dina Ahmed.

Metadrama, the poetics of disguise in Alfred Farag's drama of the seventies. - 1 online resource (270 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 61-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references

As a participant in a major theater movement in the sixties, Alfred Farag (1929) is always closely associated with that golden era of drama in Egypt. In the nineties he is still labeled a "neo-realist", "folklorist" and "playwright of the sixties", although his themes and dramatic style have developed in varying ways thereafter. This study problematizes the use of these labels in describing Farag's drama, and argues that while naturalists put a mirror to life, Farag puts it to art, often constructing fiction on fiction itself through the use of metadramatic devices. The main objective in this study is to provide a reading of Farag's (ignored) plays of the seventies, focusing specifically on his skillful use of metadrama and thus offering a different perspective on his work from what has been offered before. Though ancient, metadramatic elements have been employed continuously by twentieth-century dramatists to examine the nature of reality and identity. Farag employs them likewise examining the dramatic illusion itself in order to better understand that which it represents, the "real" world. This study explores Farag's dramatic development and his use of metadrama, in two parts. The first part covers Farag's life and career, including the circumstances that led to his imprisonment, battles with censorship, and exile, as well as his use of cultural tradition and dramatic language. An introduction to metadrama and its development is also provided as a theoretical framework for the textual analyses that follow. In the second part Alfred Farag's use of metadrama in five plays written in the seventies is closely examined, in two types: dramatic self-consciousness and self-conscious dramatic characters. The first is demonstrated through Farag's employment of the "play-within-a-play" in Zawaj 'ala Waraqat Talaq (1973) and Da'irat al-Tibn al-Misriyyah (1979). The second is illustrated through his use of "role-playing" and dramatic "perception" in three one-act plays: al-Ziyarah (1972), al-`Ayn al-Sihriyyah (1976), and al-Gharib (1977). These plays are reflective of the period in which they were conceived; they contain images of fear, class conflict, oppression, terror, psychological disorder, and the plight of female protagonists against male predators.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780599559561Subjects--Topical Terms:

522973
Theater.
Subjects--Index Terms:

DisguiseIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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