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 53
... repetition and multiplication underlie performance's instability both for description and as a process in itself . It is the endless mul- tiplication - multiplication in repetition - that characterizes the slip- periness of a ...
... repetition and multiplication underlie performance's instability both for description and as a process in itself . It is the endless mul- tiplication - multiplication in repetition - that characterizes the slip- periness of a ...
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... repetition , Romero's play ends as an apparently unconscious Ana I and a terrified Ana II await the im- minent entrance of El Viejo . Triana's play closes with another be- ginning as Beba has the last word , repeating Cuca's earlier ...
... repetition , Romero's play ends as an apparently unconscious Ana I and a terrified Ana II await the im- minent entrance of El Viejo . Triana's play closes with another be- ginning as Beba has the last word , repeating Cuca's earlier ...
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... repetition , a repetition of bands , of multiplying dancers , of Ashangas bent under the weight of liquor bottles and roast pigs . Even La Mama Negra is multiplied . The September 1994 procession boasted two performers , one of whom ...
... repetition , a repetition of bands , of multiplying dancers , of Ashangas bent under the weight of liquor bottles and roast pigs . Even La Mama Negra is multiplied . The September 1994 procession boasted two performers , one of whom ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 9 |
PERFORMANCE TEXTUALITY AND THE NARRATION OF HISTORY | 29 |
PERFORMANCE AND GAMES | 75 |
Copyright | |
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