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Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater

Upstaging Dictatorship

Ana Elena Puga

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Routledge
03 May 2012
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).

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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   550g
ISBN:   9780415537520
ISBN 10:   0415537525
Series:   Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Pages:   296
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Primary ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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

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.

Reviews for Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater: Upstaging Dictatorship

'Surveying recent productions of the plays in Italy, Argentina, Chile and the US, she persuasively demonstrates how culturally aware theatre practitioners imaginatively avoid folkloric and dehistoricized productions, and instead challenge non-Latin American audiences to think more politically about this region' - Theatre Research International 'In addition to the wealth of details that emerge from close reading, the specific performance details that emerge from her individual interviews are especially valuable' - Jon D. Rossini, Contemporary Theatre Review 'Surveying recent productions of the plays in Italy, Argentina, Chile and the US, she persuasively demonstrates how culturally aware theatre practitioners imaginatively avoid folkloric and dehistoricized productions, and instead challenge non-Latin American audiences to think more politically about this region' - Theatre Research International 'In addition to the wealth of details that emerge from close reading, the specific performance details that emerge from her individual interviews are especially valuable' - Jon D. Rossini, Contemporary Theatre Review


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