From Power-over to Power-to: Power Relations of Women in Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun
Because of binary oppositions shaping Western thought, power has been traditionally understood as male domination or as an unevenly distributed social resource between genders. However, an analysis of the power relationships of the three women in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun in the light...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Data de publicação: | 2012 |
| País: | Costa Rica |
| Recursos: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositório: | Kérwá |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/755 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://www.impossibilia.org/static/descargas/numero-4/impossibilia-4-octubre-2012-literatura-y-poder-ii.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10669/755 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | theater A Raisin in the Sun power Hamsberry. Lorraine V., 1930-1965 Literatura norteamericana |
| Resumo: | Because of binary oppositions shaping Western thought, power has been traditionally understood as male domination or as an unevenly distributed social resource between genders. However, an analysis of the power relationships of the three women in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun in the light of Derrida’s thought shows that these notions do not take into account the dynamism and complexity of power relations and hints to the establishment of a new idea of power: transformative power. |
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