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'Are You With Me?'Offensiveness and Australian Drama in the 1970s |
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| Abstract/Description |
This chapter looks at the role of ‘offensiveness’ in Australian drama of the 1970s, focussing on Barry Humphries’s portrayal of the comic figure, Sir Les Patterson. What is the complicity of artists and audiences in the views that Humphries satirises? What is the difference between satire about racism, sexism, and homophobia, and satire that is racist, sexist, and homophobic? New Wave playwrights’ historical struggle over government censorship is examined and shown to be a major reason for its support for confrontational language, stories, and images in the theatre. |
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Routledge
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The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature
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| Issue |
1st Edition
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| Date Issued |
2020
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English
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9781003124160
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| Citation |
Jenny Fewster, Julian Meyrick, 'Are You With Me?'Offensiveness and Australian Drama in the 1970s, Routledge, The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature, 1st Edition, 2020
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AusStage |
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79398
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