아비 모건과 모이라 버피니 작품에 나타난 '현장 이야기'로서의 여성사

Abstract

This study analyzes Abi Morgan''s work Splendour (2000) and Moira Buffini''s Welcome to Thebes (2010). In this study, we analyze how women existed as subjects in the historical field. In these two works, the motifs of real historical figures evoke the fact that women exist as ‘actors’ rather than as ‘peripherals’ in a large historical ‘site’. In particular, the background of the work is a scene of chaos where violence such as civil war or revolution is taking place. In this process, the woman who was recorded as the wife of the dictator husband is rather portrayed as a person who instigated the dictatorship. And the woman who was Africa''s first female president is portrayed as a revolutionary. The dictator’s wife in Splendor is based on Elena, the wife of Romanian President Ceausescu. Morgan drew attention to the violence of the dictator’s wife and the hypocrisy of women in the times of revolution, which have been relatively less noticed in the historical record. Welcome to Thebes was also inspired by Alan Johnson-Sulliffe of Liberia, who was Africa’s first female president. Allen faces two challenges: unifying the scars of the civil war and simultaneously presenting a new vision for Africa. Both of these works deal with the lives of women at the center of inter-state wars, civil wars, violence, and power. We are looking at women''s history again in the paradigm of ‘field stories’. (Daejeon Institute of Science & Technology)