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dc.contributor.authorHaddow, Sam
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-25T12:30:02Z
dc.date.available2016-05-25T12:30:02Z
dc.date.issued2014-12-05
dc.identifier.citationHaddow , S 2014 , ' History will eat itself: Rory Mullarkey's "Cannibals" and the terrors of end-narratives ' , Journal of Contemporary Drama in English , vol. 2 , no. 2 , pp. 275-288 . https://doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2014-0025en
dc.identifier.issn2288-4300
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 216435221
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 62276c34-e253-43b5-8fc6-17704b14a9cd
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85062284031
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/8866
dc.description.abstractRory Mullarkey’s Cannibals (2013), an odyssey from post-Soviet Ukraine to contemporary Britain, catalogues the destructive power of teleological historical narratives through the eyes of a protagonist “mutilated in acts of spectacular terror” (Gray 205). This article aligns Mullarkey’s play with the anti-narrative political philosophy of John Gray, criticizing their approaches as implicitly valorising the very philosophies they purport to oppose. Offering an alternative reading of Cannibals through the lens of Alain Badiou’s Rebirth of History (2012), I contend that the play opens up a space of resistance against the totalizing impulses of the present, one in which “the power of an Idea may take root” (Badiou 15).
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Contemporary Drama in Englishen
dc.rights© 2014 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2014-0025en
dc.subjectRory Mullarkeyen
dc.subjectJohn Grayen
dc.subjectAlain Badiouen
dc.subjectCannibalsen
dc.subjectEschatologyen
dc.subjectPN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theateren
dc.subject.lccPN2000en
dc.titleHistory will eat itself: Rory Mullarkey's "Cannibals" and the terrors of end-narrativesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Englishen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2014-0025
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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