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THE DEINDUSTRIAL GENERATION: MEMORY, BIOGRAPHY, AND THE BODY IN LYNN NOTTAGE’S SWEAT

SANAYİSİZ NESİL: LYNN NOTTAGE’IN SWEAT OYUNUNDA BELLEK, BİYOGRAFİ VE BEDEN

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97–109
Publication Date
2022-10-18
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In its focus on memory, biography, and the body, Sweat not only participates in what has beencalled the recent deindustrialization literature, but also revisits some of the key aesthetic choices surrounding the depictionof capitalism in modern American drama.

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Objective & Hypothesis:American playwright Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Sweat (2017), is set in the town of Reading, Pennsylvania, andtraces the life of a working-class community as they experience the devastating, multi-faceted effects of deindustrializationacross the first decade of the twenty-first century.
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Key Findings & Data:Nottage uses a series of formal and structural strategies to draw attention tohow characters remember and narrate the past, and how these memories’ racial and gendered tensions ultimately constraintheir efforts at mobilization.
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Conclusion & Impact:In its focus on memory, biography, and the body, Sweat not only participates in what has beencalled the recent deindustrialization literature, but also revisits some of the key aesthetic choices surrounding the depictionof capitalism in modern American drama.
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Abstract

American playwright Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Sweat (2017), is set in the town of Reading, Pennsylvania, andtraces the life of a working-class community as they experience the devastating, multi-faceted effects of deindustrializationacross the first decade of the twenty-first century. While concerned with the changing nature of American manufacturingunder late capitalism, the play’s depiction of labor draws on a broader historical lens, and charts the intergenerationaltransmission of class inequalities over time. Nottage uses a series of formal and structural strategies to draw attention tohow characters remember and narrate the past, and how these memories’ racial and gendered tensions ultimately constraintheir efforts at mobilization. In its focus on memory, biography, and the body, Sweat not only participates in what has beencalled the recent deindustrialization literature, but also revisits some of the key aesthetic choices surrounding the depictionof capitalism in modern American drama.

Özet

Amerikan oyun yazarı Lynn Nottage’ın Pulitzer Ödülü alan oyunu Sweat (2017), Pennsylvania eyaletinin Reading şehrinde geçer ve yirmi birinci yüzyılın başlangıcında bu şehirde yaşayan ve işçi sınıfının parçası olan bir topluluğun sanayisizleşmenin beraberinde getirdiği kapsamlı yıkımı nasıl tecrübe ettiğini anlatır. Oyun, kapitalizmin geç döneminde Amerikan üretiminin değişimiyle ilgilenir, fakat emek sorunsalını daha geniş bir tarihsel çerçevede ele alır ve sınıf eşitsizliklerinin nesiller arasında nasıl tekrarlanıp yeniden üretildiklerini gösterir. Nottage oyunda bazı formel ve yapısal stratejiler kullanarak karakterlerin geçmişi nasıl hatırladıklarını ve anlattıklarını, ve bu hatıraların toplumsal cinsiyet ve ırk açısından taşıdıkları gerginliklerin işçilerin güncel seferberliklerini nasıl etkilediğini inceler. Bellek, biyografi ve beden sorunsalları üzerinde duran Sweat sadece sanayisizleşmeyi anlatan edebi akıma katkıda bulunmaz, aynı zamanda modern Amerikan tiyatrosunun kapitalizmi tasvir edişindeki temel estetik seçimleri de yeniden ele alır.

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FİŞEK, E. (2022). THE DEINDUSTRIAL GENERATION: MEMORY, BIOGRAPHY, AND THE BODY IN LYNN NOTTAGE’S SWEAT. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Cilt: 0 - Sayı: 37, 97–109. https://ajindex.com/articles/587579

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