Ghost Families in Sung Rno's Cleveland Raining
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4550809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karen Shimakawa (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 381-396 |
| Publication date | 2000-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theatre Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-2882 • E-ISSN: 1086-332X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tj.2000.0096 |
| OpenAlex | W2050748282 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
Mari Kim, the soon-to-be ex-medical student in Sung Rno's surrealist play Cleveland Raining, reads from her medical textbook about empty spaces or, more precisely, emptied spaces--what remains (if anything) after someone has abandoned the space once occupied. Reading this passage in her textbook sparks a memory of Mari's dream the previous night: driving through the Midwestern countryside, she suddenly finds herself near the ocean and feeling "like turning the car into that wetness, that abyss." Finally giving in to the urge to escape the confines of the road, she muses, "I turn I take a sharp turn I'm turning and--Then I'm flipping through the air [...] and I'm bleeding, I'm in pain, I'm hurt, but I can't tell you, I can't tell you how happy I feel" (237-38). Her rumination on the textbook's description of a corpse as a structure from which the occupant has fled seems linked to her own dreams of escape, which take on the character of sublime fantasy
Art · Art history · Character (mathematics · Dream · Fantasy · Feeling · HAMLET (protein complex · Literature · Reading (process · Asian Culture and Media Studies · History · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |