GHOSTS IN ANGELS IN AMERICA: ROY COHN’S MALEVOLENCE
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Angels in America, Tony Kushner, Phantasmagoria, Monster Theory, Roy CohnRésumé
According to Frederick Jameson, Derrida’s ghosts are not the meanest ones in the modern tradition. The relationship of anger is what makes the ghosts to hate the living and want them dead. Jameson still questions the fact that the specter tries to reach a new solution to the phony problem of the antithesis between humanism (the respect for the past) and nihilism (the end of history, the disappearing of the past). It is not difficult to see echoes of Negri in Kushner, - the ghost, the playwright recurrent character, brings to the stage a barbaric past, a sad memory that should not be repeated or forgotten. Roy Cohn, one of the ghosts from the past in Angels in America comes to the stage with a double function, to repeat the stingy past and to haunt the present. Walter Benjamin’s idea of a past full of debris comes to the stage once again with the demons we carry within.
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