Memory, allegory, and testimony in South American theater : upstaging dictatorship

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    • Puga, Ana Elena
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Memory, allegory, and testimony in South American theater : upstaging dictatorship

Ana Elena Puga

(Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies, 8)

Routledge, 2012

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"First published 2008"--T.p. verso

"First issued in paperback 2012"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-276) and index

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Description

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 Radrigan (testimony in Chile), Augusto Boal and his co-author Gianfrancesco Guarnieri (historical allegory in Brazil), Griselda Gambaro (abstract allegory in Argentina).

Table of Contents

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 Radrigan and the Duty to Tell Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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