Theatre, performance, and memory politics in Argentina / Brenda Werth.

Author/Creator:

Werth, Brenda G.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Format/Description:

Book
x, 257 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subjects:

Theater and society -- Argentina.
Theater -- Political aspects -- Argentina.
Argentine drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Politics and literature -- Argentina.

Contents:

Introduction
Transition and the performance of retroactive justice
From Antigone to Orpheus : alternative myths and figures of mourning
Performing confessions onstage and on the stand
Argentina's postdictatorial stages : resting places and places of unrest
Argentina's middle class : paradigm of crisis and renewal
Intergenerational memory and performative acts of recovery
Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230104341 (alk. paper)
0230104347 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

548583323

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