규범화의 응시와 장애의 몸 -피터 반즈의 희극에 나타난 탈규범의 정치학 = The Normalizing Gaze and Disabled Bodies: The Politics of De-normalization in Peter Barnes` Comedy

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Drawing on the discourse of emerging disability studies, this paper examines the ways in which Peter Barnes represents cultural norms and the dichotomy of normal/abnormal in his The Ruling Class and Nobody Here But Us Chickens-comedies that problematize the constructedness of norms with an intensity unparalleled in the contemporary British theater. Barnes` politics of humor includes the demystifying of the discursive construction of abnormality that reduces people with physical differences to the marked other. To critique the social stigmatization of abnormality, Barnes` comedies invite the spectator to confront the ideological nature of normalcy that reinforces the ruling order in The Ruling Class and the arbitrariness of normalization that, as dramatized in Nobody Here But Us Chickens, renders disabilities abnormal. The representation of the abnormal body places the spectator in the empowered position of the norm and gives the invisible spectator the freedom to view others as theater, a privilege made possible at the price of the onstage body`s otherness. In order to make the spectator see his or her complicity in the construction of a social environment that converts physical difference Into abnormality, Barnes stages the spectator`s laughter and has, at crucial moments, his characters look back at the spectator`s gaze This theatrical strategy, frequently used in feminist and disability theaters, will demonstrate that Barnes, in addressing social themes, pushes the limits of dramatic representation itself. This formal experimentation, combined with his scathing political satire, informs Barnes` politics of de-normalization that, in turn , characterizes the postwar British writers` aspiration for social reform.