Theatre, Performance, and Memory Politics in Argentina [electronic resource] /
Werth, B.author.
Since Argentina's transition to democracy, the expression of human fragility on the stage has taken diverse forms. This book examines the intervention of theatre and performance in the memory politics surrounding Argentina's return to democracy and makes a case for performance's transformative power.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Since Argentina's transition to democracy, the expression of human fragility on the stage has taken diverse forms. This book examines the intervention of theatre and performance in the memory politics surrounding Argentina's return to democracy and makes a case for performance's transformative power.
Theater.
Theater—History.
Area studies.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Theatre History.
Area Studies.