The Leper in Blue: Coercive Performance and the Contemporary Latin American TheaterDrawing upon contemporary theoretical debates surrounding performance, gender, and Latin American studies, The Leper in Blue examines representations of performance within dramatic texts. The book treats the work of playwrights such as Vincente Lenero, Sabina Berman, Mariela Romero, Griselda Gambaro, Maruxa Vilalta, and Rosario Castellanos, who depict the freedom of performance within a framework of compulsion. Individual chapters focus on the transformation of historical narratives, ritual game playing, the performance of gender, the staging of torture, and, finally, nonperformance--the representation of coercive performances that are at once demanded and denied. The plays examined not only raise important questions about the nature of performance but also shed light on many of the crucial sociopolitical issues of twentieth-century Latin America, among them economic instability, political repression, state violence, and dictatorship. |
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... false . Sabido writes that he labels the play " falsa ” because “ esta obra no intenta ser la biografía de Juana de Castilla , La Loca . Se trata de presentar el mundo desorbitado y fuera de todo límite como las pa- siones que en esta ...
... false . Sabido writes that he labels the play " falsa ” because “ esta obra no intenta ser la biografía de Juana de Castilla , La Loca . Se trata de presentar el mundo desorbitado y fuera de todo límite como las pa- siones que en esta ...
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... false paralytic suggests the possibility of fragility or paralysis as act , as performance . The image also points to the use of passivity as refuge . To the extent that the games " disguise " fragility , they do so through resemblance ...
... false paralytic suggests the possibility of fragility or paralysis as act , as performance . The image also points to the use of passivity as refuge . To the extent that the games " disguise " fragility , they do so through resemblance ...
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... false - or is believed to be false - in the extrathe- atrical context calls attention to the degree to which other cases of fictive paralysis may be demanded by social constraints . The dis- ability may or may not be real , but in order ...
... false - or is believed to be false - in the extrathe- atrical context calls attention to the degree to which other cases of fictive paralysis may be demanded by social constraints . The dis- ability may or may not be real , but in order ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 9 |
PERFORMANCE TEXTUALITY AND THE NARRATION OF HISTORY | 29 |
PERFORMANCE AND GAMES | 75 |
Copyright | |
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