Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater
Upstaging Dictatorship
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Central & South American, Drama History & Criticism, Nonfiction, Entertainment, Performing Arts
| Author: | Ana Elena Puga | ISBN: | 9781135899233 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | May 5, 2008 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Ana Elena Puga |
| ISBN: | 9781135899233 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | May 5, 2008 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elaboration in two different kinds of allegory. Each chapter focuses on one contemporary playwright (or one collaborative team, in the case of Brazil) from each of four Southern Cone countries and compares the playwrights’ aesthetic strategies for subverting ideologies of dictatorship: Carlos Manuel Varela (memory in Uruguay), Juan Radrigán (testimony in Chile), Augusto Boal and his co-author Gianfrancesco Guarnieri (historical allegory in Brazil), Griselda Gambaro (abstract allegory in Argentina).
Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elaboration in two different kinds of allegory. Each chapter focuses on one contemporary playwright (or one collaborative team, in the case of Brazil) from each of four Southern Cone countries and compares the playwrights’ aesthetic strategies for subverting ideologies of dictatorship: Carlos Manuel Varela (memory in Uruguay), Juan Radrigán (testimony in Chile), Augusto Boal and his co-author Gianfrancesco Guarnieri (historical allegory in Brazil), Griselda Gambaro (abstract allegory in Argentina).
