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Connectivity, Mobility and the Postfeminist Landscape in Judy Upton’s Ashes and Sand

Autoři: Kalavská Petra

Rok: 2025

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	Connectivity, Mobility and the Postfeminist Landscape in Judy Upton’s Ashes and Sand	The presentation concentrates on the 1990s, the younger generation of British dramatists and new writing characterised not only by the depiction of male discomfort and disaffection but also by the representation of teenage girls desiring upward social mobility while misinterpreting Thatcherite rhetoric of individualism, self-advancement and progress. Even though the plays by British women who started writing in the 1990s were not seen to fit into the category of women’s drama, the presentation builds on more recent research and suggests that the plays by the younger generation of women can be disinterred from what Elaine Aston calls “a masculine cult of in-yer-face-ism” and that they can be studied in the context of women’s playwriting. The presentation focuses on Judy Upton’s critically well-accepted play Ashes and Sand (1994) and proposes that by “ganging up to fight their corner” and by strengthening the intragenerational connections, young adolescents learn to cope with harsh living conditions in their own way. The teenage girls are convinced that toughness and aggression are essential qualities in their lives as they enable them to advance in a society that places emphasis on the individual, that disregards the waste of young lives and that does not acknowledge serious social dysfunction. Violent behaviour and illegal activities help young adolescents to feel empowered and to survive in post-Thatcher and post-feminist Britain. The idea of physical and social mobility plays an important role in the lives of the teenagers living in an era that does not aim to transform the social reality of those who are on the edge of British society.	Ashes and Sand; Judy Upton; in-yer-face theatre; postfeminist theory