Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction, & THE AMERICA PLAY
Psychoanalytic Theory & THE MAIDS, Ecocriticism & THE GOAT
Materialism & MASTER HAROLD, Post-colonialism & M. BUTTERFLY
100
Argues that all human activity is based upon
organizing systems of social conventions
What is structuralism
100
This reading talks about "bracketing" and Husserl's principle of co-presence.
What is Bert O. States' The Phenomenological Attitude
100
Carries out a “scientific and
objective analysis of the
basic abstract patterns that
underlie and activate all
cultural activities”
What is structuralism
100
A clinical and interpretive science/
therapy founded by Sigmund Freud that offers a
genetic theory of the evolution of the human mind
as a psychic apparatus
What is psychoanalysis
100
A critical activity in the Marxist tradition that avoids
attempting to understand all cultural activities as
mere effects of the economic base
What is materialism
200
The scientific study of signs and how they produce meaning.
What is semiotics
200
The term coined by Sartre . . . According to
which ‘existence precedes essence.’
What is existentialism
200
Distrusts notion of reason, and idea of the human being as an independent entity. The “individual” is not an essence but merely a “tissue of textualities,” i.e., a product of social & linguistic forces
What is post-structuralism
200
The Maids is often considered a direct psychoanalysis of _____ because of their former status as a prostitute
What is the author Jean Genet
200
Play confronts social issues such as alcoholism, material disadvantages, racism, exploitation & apartheid
What is Master Harold
300
A sign with no organic/obvious relationship to what it signifies – EX: the word DOG to represent the animal
What is a symbol
300
Two philosophers who wrote about being thrust into circumstances and denied the existence of "human nature"
Who are Jean-Paul Sartre & Simone de Beauvoir
300
Founded by Derrida, this theory attempts to dismantle this
binary and its tendency to privilege one perspective over another, thereby decentralizing meaning
What is deconstruction
300
Emerging field which examines literature, performance, art and other “cultural products” as an interface between nature and culture
What is ecocriticism
300
A nation establishing political and economic
dominance over another through territorial
acquisition or policies.
What is imperialism
400
Emphasizes the arbitrary
relationship between signifier
and signified.
What is Ferdinand de Saussure
400
“the study of ‘phenomena’: appearances of things, or
things as they appear in our experience, or the ways we experience things,
thus the meanings things have in our experience
What is phenomenology
400
Playwright who deconstruct systems of knowledge in order to question the previous, or create new meanings
Who is Susan Lori-Parks
400
Sylvia can be considered a representation of ______ due to her lack of autonomy and
What is nature itself
400
• “After” or “Aftermath” meaning ongoing
liberation & ongoing oppression
• Our current era dealing with the aftermath of
colonialism and its continued social, political,
economic, and cultural effects
What is post-colonialism
500
The main icon in Trifles
What is the dead bird
500
In No Exit, Sartre's characters are living in bad faith. This is part of the theory of...
What is existentialism
500
Foundling Father is living in ______ of worker/leader, poor/privileged
What is cultural constructs
500
“Illuminates the role of human desire in the commodification of nature” is a quote by ____
Who is Dr. Theresa May in Beyond Bambi
500
M. Butterfly challenges, responds to, complicates ____
What is Western ideology, imperialism, exoticism, etc.