Travesty and Transgression
Transvestism in Shakespeare, Brecht, and Churchill
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4550744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Herrmann (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 133 |
| Publication date | 1989-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theatre Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-2882 • E-ISSN: 1086-332X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3207855 |
| OpenAlex | W2314450540 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In Marguerite Duras's Lover (1984), the first person narrator recalls her image at fifteen and a half crossing the Mekong on a ferry that takes her to school in Saigon. She is wearing a silk dress that used to belong to her mother, gold lam6 evening shoes, and a flat-brimmed hat, a brownish-pink fedora with a broad black ribbon. The crucial ambiguity of the image, she suggests, lies in the hat. Like the shoes, the hat must have been a discount item
Art · Literature · Marine transgression · Psychoanalysis · Transvestism · Psychology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Geology · Paleontology
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |