Heteroglossia in G.H. Musengezi's the Honourable MP (1984)
This article illustrates how heteroglossia functions in G.H. Musengezi’s (1984) satirical play, The Honourable MP. Heteroglossia describes the coexistence, as well as the clashing, of distinct voices within a text. It can be shown that while the playwright has a distinct (and seemingly dominant) voi...
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| description | This article illustrates how heteroglossia functions in G.H. Musengezi’s (1984) satirical play, The Honourable MP. Heteroglossia describes the coexistence, as well as the clashing, of distinct voices within a text. It can be shown that while the playwright has a distinct (and seemingly dominant) voice operating in the play – expressed mainly via the sets of characters he creates and the roles he creates for them, as well as through the play’s general mise en scène – there are other voices in the play as well, operating in spite of the playwright’s wishes. The ‘other’ voices specifically function through exceeding the playwright’s, simultaneously confirming and contradicting the central message of the play. It is not what the writer says in
the end that is important, but what is made out of what is left after the writer has had his/her say. Meaning finally resides in the surpluses of the text. Audiences ultimately hear what they hear, what they think they hear, and what they want to hear. The ear, rather than the voice, is finally transcendent. |
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| spelling | ir-11408-13262022-06-27T13:49:06Z Heteroglossia in G.H. Musengezi's the Honourable MP (1984) Mboti, Nyasha Tagwirei, Cuthbeth Bakhtin, carnival, ear, G.H. Musengezi, hearing loss, heteroglossia, The Honourable MP This article illustrates how heteroglossia functions in G.H. Musengezi’s (1984) satirical play, The Honourable MP. Heteroglossia describes the coexistence, as well as the clashing, of distinct voices within a text. It can be shown that while the playwright has a distinct (and seemingly dominant) voice operating in the play – expressed mainly via the sets of characters he creates and the roles he creates for them, as well as through the play’s general mise en scène – there are other voices in the play as well, operating in spite of the playwright’s wishes. The ‘other’ voices specifically function through exceeding the playwright’s, simultaneously confirming and contradicting the central message of the play. It is not what the writer says in the end that is important, but what is made out of what is left after the writer has had his/her say. Meaning finally resides in the surpluses of the text. Audiences ultimately hear what they hear, what they think they hear, and what they want to hear. The ear, rather than the voice, is finally transcendent. 2016-05-16T13:25:50Z 2016-05-16T13:25:50Z 2014-05 Article 0256-0046 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2014.906339 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/1326 en Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies;Vol. 28, No. 2, p.178-198 open Routledge |
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| title | Heteroglossia in G.H. Musengezi's the Honourable MP (1984) |
| title_full | Heteroglossia in G.H. Musengezi's the Honourable MP (1984) |
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| title_short | Heteroglossia in G.H. Musengezi's the Honourable MP (1984) |
| title_sort | heteroglossia in g.h. musengezi's the honourable mp (1984) |
| topic | Bakhtin, carnival, ear, G.H. Musengezi, hearing loss, heteroglossia, The Honourable MP |
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