마리아 아이린 포네즈의 Mud에 나타난 Feminist Mimesis와 여성들의 글쓰기 전략

Abstract

Maria Irene Fornes is known as one of the playwrights who has carried the experimental spirit of the late 1960's up to the present time. Her experimentations have two-pronged directions, namely form and content. Fornes characterizes herself as a strict formalist, and asserts that she is interested in telling stories about women. This article examines women's writing strategies embodied in her play Mud, focusing on how such strategies superbly appropriate and modify the experimental theatre craftsmanships such as the epic theatre and theater of the absurd ; and ultimately contructs a unique form of modified realism in this particular play. It also analyzes how Fornes re-visits the issues such as women's work, gender roles, woman's pursuit for knowledge through language, from woman-centered point of view. The article ultimately suggests the equal importance of both political messages of feminism and women's forms in women's theatre.