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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Page 78
... paralysis ( if nothing else , because the source of immobility is identifiable and , potentially , mutable ) the psychological effects may be similar . In El juego , the performance of physical paralysis is most evident . However , the ...
... paralysis ( if nothing else , because the source of immobility is identifiable and , potentially , mutable ) the psychological effects may be similar . In El juego , the performance of physical paralysis is most evident . However , the ...
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... paralysis . By adopting paralysis as pose , the characters inescapably insert themselves into the network of dominance and repression their games both mirror and resist . Paralysis appears intertwined with the development of alternative ...
... paralysis . By adopting paralysis as pose , the characters inescapably insert themselves into the network of dominance and repression their games both mirror and resist . Paralysis appears intertwined with the development of alternative ...
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... paralysis within a complex matrix , alluding to a variety of social patterns and calling into question the connotations of an immobi- lized female figure . Paralysis - and false paralysis - appears linked to the danger of violent attack ...
... paralysis within a complex matrix , alluding to a variety of social patterns and calling into question the connotations of an immobi- lized female figure . Paralysis - and false paralysis - appears linked to the danger of violent attack ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 9 |
PERFORMANCE TEXTUALITY AND THE NARRATION OF HISTORY | 29 |
PERFORMANCE AND GAMES | 75 |
Copyright | |
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