The Lock on My Lips (Paperback)

The Lock on My Lips foregrounds gender, narrative and identity in its representations. It tells the story of a woman who defies traditional patriarchal boundaries that deny women their rights, most especially the right to landed property and buys land in her name. Discursive constructions, 'travelling concepts', metaphors, multiple perspectives, narrative, imagery, folklore, anthropological objects, and mixed-genre plot structure (narrative-(poetic)-drama), combine to tell the story of gendered beings and thus pave the way for exploring the interdisciplinary potentials of the play-text. Land and genre are gender markers. Land is definable through power and authority, constitutes the material with which masculinities are constructed, and thus becomes a space where women are excluded. The play equates land with patriarchal ideology of male virility and supremacy, but creates a mixed-genre fragmentary structure to disrupt the very patriarchal power erected through the metaphor of land.

General

Imprint:	Langaa RPCID
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2014
First published:	March 2014
Authors:	Pepertua K. Nkamanyang Lola
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	234
ISBN-13:	978-9956791088
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General
LSN:	9956791083
Barcode:	9789956791088

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