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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... frame mirroring the spatial frame whereby the stage is recognized as such , that is , as a space of performance . " Taking place " implies occupation as well as event , the assumption of the right to stake a claim . While Féral implies ...
... frame mirroring the spatial frame whereby the stage is recognized as such , that is , as a space of performance . " Taking place " implies occupation as well as event , the assumption of the right to stake a claim . While Féral implies ...
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... frame of the play when the four female actors assume the costumes of their male characters . Transvestism also occurs within the frame , as part of the interaction of the four protagonists . All three plays depict , in differing ways ...
... frame of the play when the four female actors assume the costumes of their male characters . Transvestism also occurs within the frame , as part of the interaction of the four protagonists . All three plays depict , in differing ways ...
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... frame that congeal over time to produce the appearance of substance , of a nat- ural sort of being " ( Gender 33 ) . The assertion of a regulatory frame immediately places gender - and the performance of gender - outside a space of free ...
... frame that congeal over time to produce the appearance of substance , of a nat- ural sort of being " ( Gender 33 ) . The assertion of a regulatory frame immediately places gender - and the performance of gender - outside a space of free ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 9 |
PERFORMANCE TEXTUALITY AND THE NARRATION OF HISTORY | 29 |
PERFORMANCE AND GAMES | 75 |
Copyright | |
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