The Modern Tragic Animal in the Zoo: A Zoocritical Reading of The Hairy Ape

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dc.authoridEdman, Timucin Bugra/0000-0002-5103-4791en_US
dc.authorscopusid57222611859en_US
dc.authorscopusid58209968400en_US
dc.authorwosidEdman, Timucin Bugra/JXN-0636-2024en_US
dc.contributor.authorKaragoz, Cengiz
dc.contributor.authorEdman, Timucin Bugra
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-23T16:04:29Z
dc.date.available2024-08-23T16:04:29Z
dc.date.issued2023en_US
dc.departmentDüzce Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractIn The Hairy Ape, Eugene O'Neill depicts the shortcomings of an industrialized society: class distinctions are made stark as we witness the upper class occupying a financially superior and luxurious position above the exploited proletariat. Deviating from previous anthropocentric readings of O'Neill's text that fail to notice the play's non-human concerns, this article posits a zoocritical analysis that is interested in the play's use of the zoo animal as a metaphor that informs our understanding of the proletariat as their freedoms are restricted and are violently exploited. The explicit references that liken the working class to wild animals and apes in zoos are suggestive of the common points at which the struggles of animals and the working class intersect. Like animals tasked only to please humans and whose life is restricted to zoos, the workers, serving the interests of the upper class, spend their days mostly shovelling coal into the engine of a transatlantic liner and feel a sense of isolation as they rarely make contact with others outside the ship. Yank, the protagonist, when imprisoned, falls into a fit of fury that reminds us of how zoos are like prisons and vice versa. O'Neill implicitly suggests kinship to animals that have been oppressed and tortured for the sake of human interests.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00138398.2023.2193472
dc.identifier.endpage92en_US
dc.identifier.issn0013-8398
dc.identifier.issn1943-8117
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85154619779en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage81en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2023.2193472
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12684/14228
dc.identifier.volume66en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000980317400001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofEnglish Studies in Africaen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectEugene O'Neillen_US
dc.subjectzoocriticismen_US
dc.subjectzooen_US
dc.subjectanimalsen_US
dc.subjectworkersen_US
dc.subjectcapitalismen_US
dc.subjectBergsonen_US
dc.subjectThe Hairy Apeen_US
dc.titleThe Modern Tragic Animal in the Zoo: A Zoocritical Reading of The Hairy Apeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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