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Publication date: 31.03.2022
Cahiers ERTA, 2022, Numéro 29, pp. 106 - 129
https://doi.org/10.4467/23538953CE.22.004.15625Authors
Victoires de Wajdi Mouawad: de la défenestration à l’espoir collectif
Victoire, a student at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art, committed suicide when she was only twenty-four years old. This death, inspired by Greek tragedies, reveals a gesture that is both heroic and symptomatic of an era. In his play, Wajdi Mouawad questions the depth of the deadly gesture of suicide as well as fate of death. By analyzing the funeral rites evoked in the play, we will see how Victoire's friends engage in a process of idealizing death, making Victoire a modern heroine. The gesture of death transforms into that of a gesture of hope, leading them towards a surge of life itself.
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Information: Cahiers ERTA, 2022, Numéro 29, pp. 106 - 129
Article type: Original article
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Victoires de Wajdi Mouawad: de la défenestration à l’espoir collectif
Victoires of Wajdi Mouawad: when defenestration becomes a collective hope
Université du Québec à Montréal
Published at: 31.03.2022
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