2019
DOI: 10.13185/kk2020.03324
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Dramatizing History: Reading Bakhtin’s Carnival in Kee Thuan Chye’s Plays

Abstract: This paper explores the representations of Bakhtin's notion of the Carnival in two revisioned historical plays of Kee Thuan Chye. As a firm believer of freedom of expression, Kee Thuan Chye employs his plays as a medium to express his criticism towards and resistance against authority. His plays We Could **** You, Mr. Birch (1994) and Swordfish, then the Concubine (2009) form the corpus of this study. This study investigates how Bakhtin's notion of the Carnival is represented in the plays which are reconstruc… Show more

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