A Study of the Abject in Annie Baker's The Flick

Abstract

The abject is literally defined as the rejection of what comes of oneself of bodily fluids and bodily waste. It is also true of the dirt in the environment , dirt in bathroom , the garbage , etc. .While abjection is the reaction one shows at realizing an abject.

Annie Baker's The Flick (2013 ) portrays a trio of theatre employees, who are carrying out marginal jobs of sweeping , cleaning up the garbage left by the audience and projecting movies on screen respectively . They are underpaid and through carrying out marginal jobs , they are discarded by movie –theatre audience and thus tend to be figuratively abjects .

The aim of present paper is to analyze the abject figuratively in Annie Baker's The Flick in the light of Julia Kristeva's work ,Powers of Horror : An Essay on Abjection