Exploring the Dramatic Transition from the Deluge to COVID-19: The Case of Karen Malpede's Other Than We and Troy Too | ||
| مجلة کلية الآداب جامعة الفيوم | ||
| Article 45, Volume 13, العدد 2 (اللغويات) - Serial Number 4, July 2021, Pages 2148-2181 PDF (817.22 K) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jfafu.2021.105910.1642 | ||
| Author | ||
| خالد سرواح* | ||
| کلية الآداب-جامعة کفر الشيخ-مدينة کفر الشيخ | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The present paper argues for a type of transition that has been dramatically made from the natural phenomenon of the "Deluge" to the global phenomenon of "COVID-19." Towards this end, the paper draws on an ecocritical approach with a view to tackling Karen Malpede's Other Than We (2019) and Troy Too (2020). The two texts are presented as a dramatic "Organon" that reveals how a fully-fledged environmental crisis has developed from the Deluge in the former play to COVID-19 in the latter due to man's transgression against nature. The paper has reached three findings. First, Malpede has moved thematically from the Deluge in OTW to COVID-19 in TT by employing techniques such as language shifting, the anachronistic representation of Euripides’ personae, poetry, and open ends. Second, the paper demonstrates how cultural ecofeminism surpassed radical ecofeminism in featuring women’s roles not only in attempting a daring response to natural disasters but also in warning people against the gravity and immensity of pandemic diseases. Third, the playwright's vision has crystalized in an admonishingly prophetic light: We must act together in ways that will save, rather than destroy, us as well as all creatures on the planet | ||
| Keywords | ||
| COVID-19; the Deluge; ecocriticism; ecofeminism | ||
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