마리아 아이린 포네즈의 Mud에 나타난 Feminist Mimesis와 여성들의 글쓰기 전략

Women"s Writing Strategies for Feminist Mimesis in Maria Irene Fornes"s Play Mud

&nbsp;&nbsp;Maria Irene Fornes is known as one of the playwrights who has carried the experimental spirit of the late 1960&quot;s up to the present time. Her experimentations have two-pronged directions, namely form and content. Fornes characterizes herself as a strict formalist, and asserts that she is interested in telling stories about women.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;This article examines women&quot;s writing strategies embodied in her play Mud, focusing on how such strategies superbly appropriate and modify the experimental theatre craftsmanships such as the epic theatre and theater of the absurd ; and ultimately contructs a unique form of modified realism in this particular play. It also analyzes how Fornes re-visits the issues such as women&quot;s work, gender roles, woman&quot;s pursuit for knowledge through language, from woman-centered point of view. The article ultimately suggests the equal importance of both political messages of feminism and women&quot;s forms in women&quot;s theatre.