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Cherilyn Sarkisian – 'Cher' or the postmodern Prometheus: Voicing the 'Marginal'
| Resumo: | This paper aims at showing how Cher’s performance helps break barriers of official identities, celebrates difference, and ultimately voices the marginal. Her career is a vast repertoire of ethnic, feminist, and postmodern representations. It celebrates hybridity and self-transformation and is rooted in her ancestry and the sociocultu- ral context of the United States of her childhood and adolescence. In the episode of The X-Files The Postmodern Prometheus the series creator rewrites Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus and, establishing a parallel between Cher’s public image and the myth of Prometheus, shows how her subversive performance empathizes with the marginal and helps build a collective experience that culmina- tes in an impressive number of followers. |
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| Autores principais: | Cadilhe, Orquídea |
| Assunto: | Humanidades::Línguas e Literaturas |
| Ano: | 2015 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | This paper aims at showing how Cher’s performance helps break barriers of official identities, celebrates difference, and ultimately voices the marginal. Her career is a vast repertoire of ethnic, feminist, and postmodern representations. It celebrates hybridity and self-transformation and is rooted in her ancestry and the sociocultu- ral context of the United States of her childhood and adolescence. In the episode of The X-Files The Postmodern Prometheus the series creator rewrites Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus and, establishing a parallel between Cher’s public image and the myth of Prometheus, shows how her subversive performance empathizes with the marginal and helps build a collective experience that culmina- tes in an impressive number of followers. |
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