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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... historical events constructed in the plays are placed beside more traditional renderings . In any history play , the playwright's text is necessarily a rewriting of prior historical texts . Although perfor- mance is not strictly writing ...
... historical events constructed in the plays are placed beside more traditional renderings . In any history play , the playwright's text is necessarily a rewriting of prior historical texts . Although perfor- mance is not strictly writing ...
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... historical character , a time period , an era , are buried in oblivion ; who benefits from this omission ] . In addition to fictional and historical charac- ters , past and present moments , Martirio combines a variety of " documents ...
... historical character , a time period , an era , are buried in oblivion ; who benefits from this omission ] . In addition to fictional and historical charac- ters , past and present moments , Martirio combines a variety of " documents ...
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... historical text that worries him . Lindenberger points out that statements that take advantage of hindsight , as when a character in a historical drama confidently predicts the future , “ provide an easy means of asserting the historical ...
... historical text that worries him . Lindenberger points out that statements that take advantage of hindsight , as when a character in a historical drama confidently predicts the future , “ provide an easy means of asserting the historical ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 9 |
PERFORMANCE TEXTUALITY AND THE NARRATION OF HISTORY | 29 |
PERFORMANCE AND GAMES | 75 |
Copyright | |
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