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Driving Miss Daisy as Memory Theatre
- Author(s):
- Suzanne England (see profile) , Carol Ganzer, Carol Tosone
- Date:
- 2015
- Group(s):
- GS Drama and Performance, LLC Jewish American, TC Age Studies, TC Memory Studies
- Subject(s):
- American literature, Culture--Study and teaching, Drama
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Cultural studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6XK58
- Abstract:
- Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, Driving Miss Daisy (1986) is examined as a site of memory including: Uhry’s own memories upon which the characters and the play itself are based; the role of memory stories, settings and objects in the unfolding of the relationship be-tween its main characters, Daisy Wertham and her chauffeur, Hoke Colburn; and, as the first play in Uhry’s Atlanta Trilogy, a lieu de mémoire of mid-twentieth century Atlanta. Inspired by the thinking of contemporary theatre scholars, and the work of Maurice Halbwachs (1992) and Pierre Nora (1989), we conceptualize Driving Miss Daisy as memory-theatre, with sites of memory, memory stories and objects, ghosts, hauntings of the past, and a recasting of history to engage memories and cultural identity.
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- xml
- Status:
- Published
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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