What is it about?
The article shows how individual immigrants develop social, linguistic and personal strategies to create communities, even if they are relegated to the margins by mainstream society. The article focuses on drama as a way to materialize this process and on female characters to make points about gender and immigration.
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Why is it important?
The article shows that individual immigrants develop social, linguistic and personal strategies to create communities, even if they are relegated to the margins by mainstream society. Immigrants are not voiceless and they do not lack agency.
Perspectives
Often immigrants are generalized as voiceless, a undifferentiated group whose goals is either fast assimilation or resistance and insular behavior. I am interesting is how immigrants negotiate their position in society, how they become productive members of their communities while also maintaining their individuality. Also, I am fascinated about the ways in which theatre enables us to see this process 'live.'
Dr. Oana Popescu-Sandu
University of Southern Indiana
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This page is a summary of: Staging the Postsocialist Woman: Saviana Stănescu’s Alternative Transnations, Twentieth Century Literature, March 2019, Duke University Press,
DOI: 10.1215/0041462x-7378861.
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