Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater: Upstaging Dictatorship (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies) (Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies)

by Ana Elena Puga (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $156.91

  Traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elaboration in two different kinds of allegory. Chapters in this work focus on one contemporary playwright from each of four Southern Cone countries and compares the playwrights' aesthetic strategies for subverting ideologies of dictatorship.