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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... social issues . I am interested less in the analysis of specific live - action perfor- mances , with or without prior texts , than in the implications of foregrounding a notion of performance in the analysis of playscripts and in ...
... social issues . I am interested less in the analysis of specific live - action perfor- mances , with or without prior texts , than in the implications of foregrounding a notion of performance in the analysis of playscripts and in ...
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... social and behavioral practices that oper- ate outside the theater and that constitute contemporary social life " ( 1098 ) . The prior texts of any performance are multiple , encom- passing much more than a particular script . Moreover ...
... social and behavioral practices that oper- ate outside the theater and that constitute contemporary social life " ( 1098 ) . The prior texts of any performance are multiple , encom- passing much more than a particular script . Moreover ...
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... 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 : as provocation or invitation , as that which makes the ...
... 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 : as provocation or invitation , as that which makes the ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 9 |
PERFORMANCE TEXTUALITY AND THE NARRATION OF HISTORY | 29 |
PERFORMANCE AND GAMES | 75 |
Copyright | |
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