Home is where the (he)art is
Subtitle: the family romance in late twentieth-century Mexican and Argentine theater
By: Sharon Magnarelli.
Series: The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewisburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780838757079
Subjects: Mexican drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Argentine drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Family in literature; Women in literature
Other titles: Home is where the art is
Description: "In Home Is Where The (He)art Is Sharon Magnarelli employs a variety of contemporary critical approaches to examine the dramatic works written or performed between 1956 and 1999. Focusing on plays by Griselda Gambaro, Eduardo Rovner, Sabina Berman, Diana Raznovich, Roberto Cossa, Hugo Arguelles, Marcela del Rio, and Luisa Josefina Hernandez, Magnarelli demonstrates how the playwrights engage with family relationships to comment on sociopolitical issues of national and international significance while simultaneously challenging dramatic conventions and theatrical representation. This study provides readings of plays that have already attracted significant critical attention. It also serves as a useful introduction to the modern theater of Mexico and Argentina for the interested non-specialist."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: Sub/in/di-verting the Oedipus syndrome in Luisa Josefina Hernández's Los huéspedes reales; title: Authoring the scene, playing the role : mothers and daughters in Griselda Gambaro's La malasangre; title: The family romance in Escarabajos by Hugo Argüelles : repositioning the mirror; title: The family drama : ambiguous places of seduction and memory in Roberto Cossa's El saludador; title: ¿Homo sapiens? by Marcela del Río : who framed the family?; title: Fathering the nation in Sabina Berman's Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda; title: Performing motherhood : Griselda Gambaro's De profesión maternal and Hugo Argüelles's La esfinge de las maravillas; title: Of mothers, gauchos, knishes, and desire : transculturation in Eduardo Rovner's Volvió una noche; title: More mothers and daughters in performance : simulacra and commodification in Diana Raznovich's Casa Matriz.