Youssef, Sarah (2019). The missing language of freedom: code-switching in Yael Farber's Mies Julie (2012). S. Afr. Theatre J., 32 (2). S. 142 - 158. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 2163-7660
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In 2013, Yael Farber's adapted August Strindberg's naturalistic drama Miss Julie into a contemporary play, set in South Africa's Cape Karoo semi-desert. Farber maintains in her version the various concerns the original play addresses, including class and gender, however by transporting the play to post-Apartheid South Africa, questions pertaining race and identity are reflected upon in a socio-political context. Farber negotiates these issues primarily through the use of language, utilizing code-switching throughout her contemporary parable. Farber uses code-switching as a means to reflect the despair of a nation, the search for a unified identity and the desire for intimacy of the characters. Achille Mbembe argues that South Africa has a crisis in language, however this paper argues that this alleged crisis, the continuous use of multiple languages is precisely the language of post-Apartheid South Africa. A language, which reflects the liminal state of the nation, the cultural variety of the country as well as the continuous search for a unified identity.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-135404 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/10137548.2019.1629834 | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | S. Afr. Theatre J. | ||||||||
Volume: | 32 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | S. 142 - 158 | ||||||||
Date: | 2019 | ||||||||
Publisher: | ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | ||||||||
Place of Publication: | ABINGDON | ||||||||
ISSN: | 2163-7660 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
Divisions: | Unspecified | ||||||||
Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/13540 |
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