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Volume 12 : 11 November 2012
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Resistance through Parody and Humour: a Study of
George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum

Jyoti Puri, M.A (Gold Medalist), M. Phil. in English

Focus of This Paper

The present research paper discusses the theme of resistance against racial oppression and shows how parody and humour are used as theoretical, theatrical strategies and practical tools to deal with some of the socio-political problems. George Costello Wolfe is a renowned African-American playwright, director and producer. Wolfe’s works overtly deal with the continuing presence of racial discrimination in the United States. His significant play, The Colored Museum (1985) has been selected for analysis in the discussion.

Wolfe has won an Obie Award and two Tony Awards for some of his best directed plays like Spunk, Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk. From 1993 to 2004, Wolfe has served as artistic director and producer of the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater. Wolfe also directed Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play Topdog/Underdog. He has also directed a new translation of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children (“George C. Wolfe” Wikipedia). As a director, Wolfe believes that parody is a literary device that helps its characters and the audience to actively contribute in the making of the social discourse called theatre. Linda Hutcheon in her text, A Theory of Parody (1985) says, ‘Brecht's dramatic technique of distance and critical analysis, Verfremdungseffekt is quite similar in its approach to parody. It is so because both the techniques heavily rely on the audience’s knowledge and critique of the subject matter’ (92).

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Jyoti Puri, M.A. (Gold Medalist), M. Phil. in English, JRF-NET (English)
Assistant Professor, Communication Skills
University College of Engineering
Punjabi University
Patiala 147002
Punjab
India

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Ms. Jyoti Puri
6, Mohindra Complex, Kheri Road
Patiala 147001
Punjab
India
jyoti24puri7@gmail.com

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