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Title: | Sexuality as a Performance in David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly |
Authors: | Koirala, Santosh |
Keywords: | Western masculinity;Chinese spy forges;Madama butterfly |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
Publisher: | Department of English |
Institute Name: | Central Department of English |
Level: | Masters |
Abstract: | David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly, through Rene Gallimard, a western diplomat stationed at Peking,challenges the traditional notion of identifying gender and sexuality. Gallimard had been a happily married man for years, until, he falls in love with Song Liling, a female, who is in fact a male.He was contend with the relationship with Song; however, when the reality is exposed, of him being used as a prey to milk important information to the east making a trap in oriental concept of beauty; he commits suicide to save his western ego of masculinity, because of his inability to save western masculinity. |
URI: | https://elibrary.tucl.edu.np/handle/123456789/12310 |
Appears in Collections: | English |
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Chapter page(6).pdf | 155.74 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
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