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Blasted’S Hysteria: Rape, Realism, And The Thresholds Of The Visible, Kim Solga Oct 2007

Blasted’S Hysteria: Rape, Realism, And The Thresholds Of The Visible, Kim Solga

Department of English Publications

A curious blind spot remains in the critical response to Sarah Kane’s Blasted : the rape of Cate by Ian. In a play famous for its onstage violence, why is this rape, one of its pivotal moments of brutality, left unstaged? My article seeks to worry this lacuna by exploring the theoretical and historical dimensions of the ‘‘missing’’ in Kane’s play. I argue that Kane’s representation of Cate’s rape as missing signals both her engagement with the history of rape’s representation – an elusive, evasive history rather than an outrageous, in-yer-face one – as well as a deft understanding of …


What It Is To Be A MéTis, Mike Evans, Marcelle Gareau, Lisa Krebs, Leona Neilson, Heidi Standeven Apr 2007

What It Is To Be A MéTis, Mike Evans, Marcelle Gareau, Lisa Krebs, Leona Neilson, Heidi Standeven

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.