Subject, Interest, and Community in Lynn Nottage’s Sweat and Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew

• Published in: Neophilologus Vol. 108; no. 4; pp. 689 - 704
• Main Author: Keramatfar, Hossein
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.12.2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Capitalism; Comparative Linguistics; Comparative Literature; Dramatists; Great Recession; Hegemony; Historical Linguistics; Ideology; Linguistics; Neoliberalism; Philology; Social Sciences; Subjectivity; Syntax; Theater; Lynn Nottage; Dominique Morisseau; Neoliberalism; Homo Economicus; Subjectivity

This paper studies two contemporary plays, Lynn Nottage’s Sweat (2015) and Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew (2017), and contends that they examine the assumption that the neoliberal ideology can be effectively confronted through a critical examination of the subject of neoliberalism. It draws mai...