Politics and violence in Cuban and Argentine theater
By: Katherine Ford.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: NY, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230613140
Subjects: Cuban drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Argentine drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Violence in literature; Politics and literature -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century; Politics and literature -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface : understanding the place of theater in Spanish America; title: Introduction : difficult times : considering dramatic violence; title: Who's afraid of Virgilio Piñera? : construction of violence through fear in Dos viejos pánicos (1968); title: The cobwebs of memory : history made with violence in Abelardo Estorino's La dolorosa historia del amor secreto de Don José Jacinto Milanés (1974); title: Filming the bourgeoisie : defining identity with violence in Eduardo Pavlovsky's La mueca; title: Disorderly conduct: the violence of spectatorship in Griselda Gambaro's Información para extranjeros (1973); title: Conclusion : transforming spectacles.