Reading John McGrath’s The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil as petropolitical drama: Ecological exploitation and petromodernity

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dc.contributor.authorYazgünoğlu, Kerim Can
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-07T13:16:54Z
dc.date.available2024-11-07T13:16:54Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.departmentNiğde Ömer Halisdemir Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractPetrodrama is an emerging category of contemporary theatre that addresses the challenges of petromodernity and its impacts on human and nonhuman worlds with a main focus on ecological problems. Focusing on the tribulations and vicissitudes of the Anthropocene, the age of the human, petrodrama is mainly preoccupied with the interweaving of performance and politics, one that raises questions about the way political discourses and systems perpetuate ongoing exploitations of humans and natural resources, particularly oil. To this end, this article rereads John McGrath’s play The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (1973) as petropolitical theatre concerned with ecological exploitations of Scottish Highland and oil culture. After providing an overview of John McGrath and his political views on theatre, the study examines the successive stages of social and ecological dispossession in the Scottish history and McGrath’s deployment of petromodernity that configures every structure and relationships in society. In this sense, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil highlights the imbrication of ecological disenchantment and politics, demonstrating how people are deemed as secondary compared to natural resources. As a politically engaged theatre, the play thus articulates an anti-capitalist critique of (petro)modernity and allows the possibility of action against greedy neocolonialism and neoliberalism by means of epic performances.
dc.identifier.doi10.29000/rumelide.1188784
dc.identifier.endpage1044
dc.identifier.issn2148-7782
dc.identifier.issn2148-9599
dc.identifier.issue30
dc.identifier.startpage1032
dc.identifier.trdizinid1137808
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.1188784
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/1137808
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11480/12658
dc.indekslendigikaynakTR-Dizin
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofRumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Ulusal Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_20241107
dc.subjectÇevre Çalışmaları
dc.subjectEdebiyat
dc.subjectTiyatro
dc.subjectEdebi Teori ve Eleştiri
dc.titleReading John McGrath’s The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil as petropolitical drama: Ecological exploitation and petromodernity
dc.typeArticle

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