Hidden messages
Subtitle: representation and resistance in Andean colonial drama
By: Raquel Chang-Rodríguez.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Lewisburg, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
Subjects: Peruvian drama -- To 1800 -- History and criticism.; Quechua drama -- History and criticism.; Indians of South America -- First contact with Europeans.
Description: Hidden Messages: Representation and Resistance in Andean Colonial Drama is a study that takes into account Andean cultural diversity in four works of Peruvian theater written in Quechua and Spanish. In examining these plays, Chang-Rodriguez considers the density of the different traditions that have marked these works; the complexity and variability of their messages in relation to their heterogeneous spectators, readers, and listeners; and how the colonial playwright reworked the original European models.

With a critical eye, the author analyzes texts and images of the period to uncover hidden messages resulting from the uniqueness of colonial situations and the interplay of dissimilar traditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-140) and index.