Dramatizing History: Reading Bakhtin's Carnival in Kee Thaun Chye's Plays

• Main Authors: Bakar, Erda Wati, Yusof, Noraini Md, Vengadasamy, Ravichandran
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Bakhtin; carnival; Kee Thuan Chye; new historicism; resistance; revisioning
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss33/24; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1816/viewcontent/KK_2033_2C_202019_2C_20_26_2034_2C_202020_2025_20Forum_20Kritika_20on_20the_20Shifting_20Frontiers_20of_20Literary_20Studies_20in_20the_20Twenty_First_20Century_20__20Bakar_2C_20Yusof_2C_20Vengadasamy.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This paper explores the representations of Bakhtin’s notion of the Carnival in two revisioned historical plays of Kee Thuan Chye. As a firm believer of freedom of expression, Kee Thuan Chye employs his plays as a medium to express his criticism towards and resistance against authority. His plays We...