Sarah Kane's Cleansed as a Critical Assessment of Disciplinary Power
Journal Title: Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi - Year 2017, Vol 57, Issue 1
Abstract
Written by Sarah Kane, who is regarded as one of the most prominent British dramatists of the 1990s, Cleansed (1998) has been harshly criticised for its content of extreme images of sexuality and violence, as well as for the high level of obscurity and incomprehensibility in its narrative structure. In this play, Kane treats the university campus setting like a prison with inmates being constantly watched by a central character. It is also necessary to use a vocabulary for obscurity and insufficiency to be able to define the other dramatic elements of the play such as characters and dialogue. This essay argues that Kane exploits obscurity as a narrative ploy and makes a wider statement by not restricting the scope of her message to a critique of a single institution. In criticising disciplinary power, Kane uses a central character, Tinker, and shows him in communication with the other characters in the play. Focusing on Tinker's interactions with the others, this essay also discusses that Tinker appears as a metaphor of panopticism as construed by Michel Foucault in his landmark book, Discipline and Punish (1975).
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Yeliz BİBER VANGÖLÜ
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