On the Unnatural Narrative Strategies in M.Butterfly
M.Butterfly is the representative work of Asian American dramatist David Henry Hwang and several unnatural narrative strategies such as impossible event,permeable narrator,retrogressive time line and flexible theatre space point directly to the fictionality of the work and performativity of characters.Based on unnatural narrative theory,this paper aims to explore the play's unnaturalness from four unnatural parameters:story,narrator,time and theatre space.It is pointed out that Hwang constructs an impossible world by maneuvering interlaced and layered unnatural narrative strategies.This paper further reveals that the author foregrounds the constructiveness and fluidity of characters and flouts people's fixed cognition and knowledge about identity,time and space,thus demonstrating the appeal for identity diversity beyond essentialism.
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