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ââHearing Voicesâ and Performing the Mind in debbie tucker greenâs Dramatic-Poeticsâ
This chapter explores tucker greenâs unique dramatic idiom through her distinctive play âtextâ which produces opportunities for audiences and readers to relish the ways in which language can be sounded â as it is seen, heard and uttered. Framed by Charles Bernsteinâs distinctions between orality and aurality, the chapter examines tucker greenâs technique for making the mind physically (en)actable through her non-naturalistic methods for staging a characterâs thoughts. dirty butterfly (2003), stoning mary (2005) and nut (2013) exemplify a noteworthy aesthetic for âperforming the mindâ â be it as a borderless aesthesia, a sensory space shared by multiple charactersâ perceptions (dirty butterfly) or as an individually, physically embodied, character in mimetic stage space (stoning mary, nut). The chapter proposes that three socio-cultural acknowledgements are requisite for examining tucker greenâs creative impact. These emphasize the considerable influences of post-war Caribbean poetic heritage, the ongoing after-shock of colonization as being crucial to conceptions of contemporary British culture, and the âright to opacityâ (Ădouard Glissant 1997) as a counter-stance to the hegemonic critical and aesthetic frameworks that are habitually applied to (and even âpost-colonizeâ) black British writers and their writing