Ana Elena Puga

Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater (eBook, ePUB)

Upstaging Dictatorship

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Produktbeschreibung

In this timely study, Puga compares contemporary Southern Cone playwrights and their aesthetic strategies for subverting ideologies of dictatorship; in the process, she traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elaboration in two different kinds of allegory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135899233
• Artikelnr.: 38249489

Autorenporträt

Ana Elena Puga teachs in the Department of Theatre at Northwestern University and recently published an anthology of translations of works by the Chilean playwright Juan Radrigán, Finished from the Start and Other Plays.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Carlos Manuel Varela and the Duty to Remember
Chapter Two: Boal and Guarnieri: Historical Allegory and the Duty to
Inspire
Chapter Three: Griselda Gambaro: Abstract Allegory and the Duty to Conceal
Chapter Four: Juan Radrigán and the Duty to Tell
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index