Theatre, performance, and memory politics in Argentina
By: Brenda Werth.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230104341
Subjects: Theater and society -- Argentina; Theater -- Political aspects -- Argentina; Argentine drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- Argentina
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Transition and the performance of retroactive justice; title: From Antigone to Orpheus : alternative myths and figures of mourning; title: The performance of confession onstage and on the stand; title: Argentina's postdictatorial stages : resting places and places of unrest; title: Argentina's middle class : paradigm of crisis and renewal; title: Intergenerational memory and performative acts of recovery; title: Conclusion.