Journal Article

Modernist and Postmodernist Features in the Works of Sarah Kane

Metwali, Dina Kamal Saleh

2017

Overview

This research paper tends to discuss the techniques or strategies that are used by Sarah Kane (1971-1999) to show her works just like traumatizing as their subject matter. It will cover some of the modern and post modern techniques that are used by Kane to present her works in a very striking and shocking way. Kane's oeuvre includes five plays: Blasted (1995), Phaedra's love (1996), Cleansed, (1998), Crave (1998), and 4.48 Psychosis (1999). These few works have been performed all over the world and they were a major interest for many critics of different nationalities after her unexpected death when she was only twenty- eight. She dealt with the themes of abuse, death, rape, torture, depression, suicide, addiction and incest in a very shocking and harsh manner. All the characters in her works are traumatized in a way or another; they faced and passed through horrific and catastrophic experiences which made them suffer later on as it is reflected and indicated by their actions, speeches and even their thoughts. Therefore, Kane perfectly manifests the general mood of society of her time through highlighting some techniques of that era in order to show her trauma

• Publisher: جامعة الفيوم - كلية الآداب
• Subject: الأعمال الأدبية / النقد الأدبي / كين، سارة، ت. 1999 م / ما بعد الحداثة