Author/Authors :
İNAN, Dilek Balıkesir Üniversitesi - Necatibey Eğitim Fakültesi - Ingiliz Dili Egitimi Anabilim Dali, Turkey , SÖNMEZ, Ayişe Lebriz Tacettin İstanbul Aydın Üniversitesi, Turkey
Title Of Article :
A Spatial Interpretation of David Greig’s Europe
Abstract :
The Scottish playwright David Greig has made a significant contribution to British Drama in the twenty-first century. As a result of his fascination with the notions of locality and globalism,he has been exploring contemporary political, cultural and aesthetic concerns in his dramatic work in relation to place and space. Greig considers theatre an appropriate means to express such contemporary issues as place, placelessness, fragmentation and distortion in a milieu of postmodern chaos. The aim of this paper is to explore the spatial composition in Greig’s Europe,a play in which the playwright differentiates between the place-bound nature of human subjectivity and the need for a detachment from place in the post-1989 period. At that time European geography was reshaped during the revolutions and the Balkan civil wars when the people were forced to migrate from their hometowns. This paper benefits from the terminology of geocriticism – a literary criticism which suggests an interdisciplinary approach to understanding literature in relation to space and place.
NaturalLanguageKeyword :
David Greig , Europe , Space , Place , Placelessness , Travel
JournalTitle :
Journal Of Social Sciences, Eskişehir Osmangazi University
