What is America one encounters and studies in a postmodern age? Is it a discourse? A bounded collective identity or a set of manifold, changing, and contingent identities? A fiction? An idea? A history? A place? If place has its say, are we talking about a nation, or several nations within a nation? And who are ‘Americans’? What do they share in common, what is their ‘American-ness’?

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Symbolism at a closer look:

A slew of objects and/or events and/or characters serve a specific purpose in this 'memory play'.

Besides the unicorn, the fire escape, Laura Wingfield, the candles, what other OBJECT and/or EVENT and/or CHARACTER, do you find representation for a theme in Williams' play? Explain your choice. With supporting details.

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posted by belag at Wednesday, February 28, 2007 | 7 comments