Deconstructing the Configuration of Power:Power Hierarchy and Its Operational Mechanism in Blasted  

作　　者：田雯雯 TIAN Wen-wen(Suzhou University,Suzhou 215000,China)

机构地区：[1]苏州大学

出　　处：《海外英语》2019年第24期236-237,240,共3页Overseas English

摘　　要：Blasted(1995)is knitted by Sarah Kane as a huge and intricate net of power,among whose threads every character gets entangled.By deconstructing the configuration of power from two dimensions:body shame,the seen body,we are disclosed how power hierarchy is established.In Blasted,Kane deconstructs the power game by revealing its alienating effect on people,dissolves civilized humans:once stripped off the veneer of civilization,the repressed animality residing in humans would take hold and re⁃duce us to barbarians,still the play hints that humanistic love can function as a alternative to power in ruling the world.Blasted(1995) is knitted by Sarah Kane as a huge and intricate net of power, among whose threads every character getsentangled. By deconstructing the configuration of power from two dimensions: body shame, the seen body, we are disclosed howpower hierarchy is established. In Blasted, Kane deconstructs the power game by revealing its alienating effect on people, dissolvescivilized humans: once stripped off the veneer of civilization, the repressed animality residing in humans would take hold and re-duce us to barbarians, still the play hints that humanistic love can function as a alternative to power in ruling the world.

关 键 词：power hierarchy operational mechanism ANIMALITY LOVE 

分 类 号：I106[文学—世界文学]