Breaking heterosoc, making a queerworld: using a queer directorial aesthetic to re-envision Hedda Gabler

This essay explicates the queering of a seminal realist text, Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, by means of a queer directorial aesthetic. Using queer theory, the heterosexual matrix (built on a rigid gender binary) and the nuclear family are posited as the crux of heteronormativity, which is the assumption and expectation that subjects are heterosexual.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Drama

Year dc:date.issued

2011

Author dc:creator

• Rademeyer, Philip

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Hyland, Geoffrey

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11639

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11639