Intermediality in Yussef El Guindi’s “Language Rooms” (2010) | ||||
| CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education | ||||
| Article 4, Volume 70, Issue 1, April 2020, Page 69-88 PDF (876.34 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/opde.2020.137200 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Sarah Sayed Ahmed Elgazzar Elgazzar | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| In postmodern age, the Arab-American man is torn between two identities. He lives in a world of new modes of representation, in which advent of technologies and new realities in which the line between the original and copy cannot be drawn. The inauguration of technology together with the new American world he faces have led him to live a simulated life far different from his life in his homeland, leading to the fragmentation of his own identity. Yussef El Guindi is one of the prominent playwrights who traces issues of fragmentation, hybridity and assimilation, portraying them capsulated with technological and theatrical tools onstage. He is vocal in insisting to express the division and fragmentation of the self in his plays. This paper traces El Guindi’s philosophy of combining the real and the virtual, the self and the other, assimilation and hybridity creating an intermedial stage as expounded in his play “Language Rooms”. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Literature; Intermediality; Yussef El Guindi; Virtual Self; Audience perception; Simulation | ||||
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