Abstract

CADILHE, Orquídea. Cherilyn sarkisian - ‘cher' or the postmodern prometheus: voicing the ‘marginal'. Diacrítica [online]. 2015, vol.29, n.3, pp.168-180. ISSN 0807-8967.

This paper aims at showing how Cher's performance helps break barriers of official identities, celebrates difference, and ultimately voices the marginal. Her career is a vast repertoire of ethnic, feminist, and postmodern representations. It celebrates hybridity and self-transformation and is rooted in her ancestry and the sociocultural context of the United States of her childhood and adolescence. In the episode of The X-Files The Postmodern Prometheus the series creator rewrites Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus and, establishing a parallel between Cher's public image and the myth of Prometheus, shows how her subversive performance empathizes with the marginal and helps build a collective experience that culminates in an impressive number of followers.

Keywords : performance; hybridity; self-transformation; Prometheus; postmodernism; feminism; ethnicity.

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