A woman experiencing postpartum depression documents her interaction with the abstract patterns of the yellow wallpaper in her room. The wallpaper envelops her and gradually leads her to a sense of liberation. The work highlights the social parameters of postpartum depression arising from gender inequalities.
It describes the unseen psychological violence and power dynamics within the partnership. It illuminates the invisible and unresolved traumas of women related to reproduction that are overlooked by the medical process and public discourse.
"With few, minimal changes to the original, Loukidou removes doubts and ambiguities, doing exactly what an adaptation should: bringing the text into our time. No one is unsuspecting anymore. No woman will be undermined if she is one of the many who speak about obstetric violence, gynecological violence, patriarchy. We are many now.
And what we need to read or see on stage now is something slightly shifted, clearer, less discreet, and more impactful in the social change we are tired of waiting for it to happen on its own as a result of scientific progress. It will not happen because science is not neutral; its evolution is determined by the questions, interests, and values that are significant to its practitioners.
The sense of urgency for resistance against this everyday gendered violence has filled us now." […] "The stories, the narratives, the films, and the plays that we need now can and must speak more clearly and loudly about what concerns us," says director Evgenia Tzirtzilaki in the Postscript of the publication.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Charlotte Gilman-Perkins
- Publisher
- Kapa Ekdotiki
- Original Title
- The Yellow Wallpaper
- Language
- Greek
- Subtitle
- -
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 48
- Release Date
- 10/2024
- Publication Date
- 2024
- Award
- -
- Dimensions
- 17x21 cm
- Art Movement
- Modernism
- Art Albums
- Yes
- Subjects
- Movie, theater
- ISBN-13
- 9789606283611
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