This essay is about the satirical play Sultan of Sulu Written by George Ade in 1902, The play became popular and was played on Broadway. The play is about the small area of Sulu in Philippines their sultan leader and what happens when the American took control of the area and made it its colony. The purpose of the essay is to analyze how the woman of Sulu and the American women virtue was portrayed, how the relation to money and material objects was different from the people of Sulu and United States and how racism and oriental ideas came together with anticolonial critics. The main source of material is the manuscript of the play Sultan of Sulu. The conclusion of the essay is that you can see the differences of how women’s virtue was shown in the play. You could also see differences between how the people of Sulu and United States saw on money and material things. There were also a lot of things how the oriental was portrayed and underlying anti colonial thoughts in the play.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-100778 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Södergren, Linus |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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