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« on: August 16, 2007, 11:55:30 AM »
Hello everyone. A very dear friend of mine first told me about Sarah Kane and I was very intrigued by her work, I obtained a book of her plays and have just been amazed at the beautiful pain in her works! I'm currently an American graduate student and I'm thinking of perhaps doing a thesis on her works, tho I'm not sure as there doesn't seem to be alot of scholarly info on her, at least not that I have found...any reccomendations as to this?
Also...I would like to ask this question: Maybe this is just me, being female and all that, but the one element in her work that I found very surprising is the violence which, at the risk of inflaming the ire of anyone, struck me as quite odd, and by that I mean, for a woman to write so graphically of violence, with very few exceptions I can't really think of any women writers who have dealt with this, to such a degree...perhaps a bit in the Gothic fiction of the american south with the works of Flannery O'Connor but still! That would be pushing it a bit, I think...anyway, just wondering about the reactions to this in her work. Thanks!
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