ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2007.28.191
“Only mothers and sisters and wives”: Politics of Gender and Nation in The Belle of the Belfast City
Abstract
In this play, while male authority uses the female body to marginalize andexploit it, Reid successfully turns the victimized female body into a site ofresistance and subversion of that authority. In addition to the family photographs,the songs and dances that are performed through the medium of the female bodyare unmistakably subversive. While the female voice and body within Jack’s ideaof nation are objects of repression and silence, however, the women’s bodies andvoices are freed and released in the ritual of female bonding that celebrates thesubversive potential of the feminine body. With these theatrical devices, Reidcarefully depicts and subverts the portraits of women whose roles and images havebeen imagined in the discourse of conflict-ridden Belfast.
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