%0 Journal Article
%T Cloud Nine, As Butler Likes it
%A Zahra Khozaei Ravari
%J Studies in Literature and Language
%D 2010
%I Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture
%X My aim in this article is to investigate the patriarchal forces over marginalized groups and to scrutinize Judith Butler¡¯s notion of performativity and parody in Cloud Nine (1979), a famous play by caryl Churchill, the contemporary British playwright. What I seek to argue here is to explicate how Churchill tries to show the blurred identities between the characters, social construction of gender, and the play¡¯s comic and aesthetic effects. In this sense, I aim to investigate how social construction of gender is related to blurred boundaries. In this sense, I focus on Judith Butler¡¯s idea of gender instability and the connection between gender and performativity as well as cross-gender casting and drag or cross- dressing. Key words: patriarchy; gender performativity; parody; blurred boundaries; social construction of gender; drag
%K patriarchy
%K gender performativity
%K parody
%K blurred boundaries
%K social construction of gender
%K drag
%U http://cscanada.net/index.php/sll/article/view/1548