Exorcising history
Subtitle: Argentine theater under dictatorship
By: Jean Graham-Jones.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lewisburg, [Pa.]; London, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Argentine drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Theater -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History -- 20th century.; Theater -- Political aspects -- Argentina.; Politics and literature -- Argentina.
Description: "In Exorcising History, Jean Graham-Jones documents, contextualizes, and analyzes theater produced in Buenos Aires during Argentina's military dictatorship of 1976-83 and the nation's subsequent return to democracy. The plays discussed, while not necessarily constituting "political theater," are indeed political in that each is conditioned by sociopolitical structures present at the moment of creation.

It is in this way that the plays lend themselves to Graham-Jones's examination of how personal and collective histories enter into theater production, in the creation of dramatic worlds that re-create and revise the "outside" world."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-243) and index.