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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.
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