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Title: Hedwig and Obama
Post by: Natasha on December 15, 1999, 08:17:11 PM
Post by: Natasha on December 15, 1999, 08:17:11 PM
Hedwig and Obama
http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/hedwig_and_obama/Content?oid=519443
By Cliff Bostock
7/16/2008
Although Hedwig assumes the gender of a female, it's incorrect to
refer to her as transgendered. Anatomically, she is neither sex. A
repeating theme of the play is that, like the wall that divides
Berlin, she occupies a liminal world, an "in-between world." Under the
spell of the Platonic myth that love is a result of finding one's
"missing half," thus ending the sense of being caught in the liminal,
Hedwig's unwanted task is to come to a less idealized notion of love
and being.
http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/hedwig_and_obama/Content?oid=519443
By Cliff Bostock
7/16/2008
Although Hedwig assumes the gender of a female, it's incorrect to
refer to her as transgendered. Anatomically, she is neither sex. A
repeating theme of the play is that, like the wall that divides
Berlin, she occupies a liminal world, an "in-between world." Under the
spell of the Platonic myth that love is a result of finding one's
"missing half," thus ending the sense of being caught in the liminal,
Hedwig's unwanted task is to come to a less idealized notion of love
and being.
Title: Re: Hedwig and Obama
Post by: androgynetg on July 17, 2008, 10:35:18 AM
Post by: androgynetg on July 17, 2008, 10:35:18 AM
Quote from: Natasha on December 15, 1999, 08:17:11 PM
Hedwig and Obama
You do realize that in associating the Democratic presidential candidate with a gender-non-conformist, this is an attempt to tarnish Obamas' reputation in the heartland, the United States of JesusLand .. ??
Title: Re: Hedwig and Obama
Post by: NicholeW. on July 17, 2008, 11:06:59 AM
Post by: NicholeW. on July 17, 2008, 11:06:59 AM
Quote from: androgynetg on July 17, 2008, 10:35:18 AMQuote from: Natasha on December 15, 1999, 08:17:11 PM
Hedwig and Obama
You do realize that in associating the Democratic presidential candidate with a gender-non-conformist, this is an attempt to tarnish Obamas' reputation in the heartland, the United States of JesusLand .. ??
Hardly, it's the political, cum artsy, essay of a PhD in Depth Psychology. Depth is good, perhaps Suporn was his 1st reader? :) But the in-between is all an attempt to bolster the final sentence that would easily have stood alone. Of course, a sentence isn't an essay, it's an epigram.
Nichole