Stages of exile
Subtitle: Spanish Repulican exile theatre and performance
By: Helena Buffery [editor]
Series: Iberian and Latin American studies: the arts, literature and identity -- 3
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9783034302630
Subjects: History; Politics and literature; Spanish drama; History and criticism; History and  criticism; Exiles in literature; Exile (Punishment) in literature; Exiles' writings, Spanish; Emigration and immigration in literature; Literature and the war
Description: This book brings together twelve specially commissioned essays that showcase current research on Spanish Republican exile theatre and performance, including work by some of the foremost scholars in the field. Covering a range of periods, geographical locations and theatrical phenomena, the essays are united by the common question of what it means to {u2018}stage exile{u2019}, exploring the relationship between space, identity and performance in order to excavate the place of theatre in Spanish Republican exile production. Each chapter takes a particular case study as a starting point in order to assess the place of a particular text, practitioner or performance within Hispanic theatre tradition and then goes on to examine the case study{u2019}s relationship with the specific sociocultural context in which it was located and/or produced. The authors investigate wider issues concerning the recovery and performability of these documentary traces, addressing their position within the contemporary debate over historical and cultural memory, their relationship to the contemporary stage, the insights they offer into the experience and performance of exile, and their contribution to contemporary configurations of identity and community in the Hispanic world. Through this commitment to interdisciplinary debate, the volume offers a new and invigorating reimagination of twentieth-century Hispanic theatre from the margins. -- From publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Españoles en Francia: An Unpublished Play by Alvaro de Orriols / MANUEL AZNAR SOLER; title: The Civil War in Exile: Poetry and Politics in Jose Bergamín's La niña guerrillera / NIGEL DENNIS; title: An Intertextual Return: Alvaro Arauz's Entre Medina y Olmedo /  FRANCISCA MONTEIL; title: La película duende: María Teresa León: Rafael Alberti and Alternative Traditions of Resurrecting Golden Age Drama / DUNCAN WHEELER; title: Don Juan in Exile / LAURA LONSDALE; title: Exile, Resistance and Heteroglossia in Gerhard's Flamenco / SAMUEL LLANO; title: Myth and Exile in the work of Jose Martín Elizondo / MARIA JOSEP RAGUE ARIAS; title: Nostalgia and Exoticism in El ben cofat i lealtre, by Josep Carner / MONTSERRAT ROSER I PUIG; title: Exile and the Theatre of the Galician Diaspora / DAVID GARCIA VIDAL; title: Staging Return: Max Aub's theatre of broken dreams / JOSE ANGELSAINZ; title: Performing Exile: María Casares  / MARIA DELGADO; title: Effigies of return in Spanish Republican exile theatre and performance cultures / HELENA BUFFERY.