‘I was simply obeying the law of the body’: Dispossession and Exposure of the Vulnerable Body in Harold Pinter’s A Kind of Alaska
Harold Pinter’s one-act play A Kind of Alaska (1982) stages Deborah, a woman who wakes up after twenty-nine years of coma, along with her doctor and sister. Her presence on stage in her hospital bed inevitably raises the question of the perception of the diseased body: her body is exposed, made audi...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2017-10-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/3762 |