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Staging Words, Performing Worlds

Intertextuality and Nation in Contemporary Latin American Theater

By: Gail A. Bulman

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Staging Words, Performing Worlds

Intertextuality and Nation in Contemporary Latin American Theater

By: Gail A. Bulman

Staging Words presents new perspectives on Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela and their theater, by postulating that nation can be imagined and reconstructed through the deliberate performance of intertexts. The book shows how past artistic texts - other plays, stories, newspaper articles, songs, or paintings - can be manipulated and translated to create a new theatrical script, and that this new script can expose an innovative space for interpreting the nation. The introduction reviews theories of intertextuality, nation, and nationalism and applies them to Latin America. Each chapter studies two to three plays and shows how the intertexts open up hidden connections and border spaces within texts and between texts that the new writer and reader fill with significance, replacing the meaning of the pretext with their own. This new textual voice permits texts to be restaged, reconfigured, and imagined in a way that is purely Latin American.

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Feeling the Gaze

Image and Affect in Contemporary Argentine and Chilean Performance

By: Gail Bulman

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Feeling the Gaze

Image and Affect in Contemporary Argentine and Chilean Performance

By: Gail Bulman

Feeling the Gaze explores the visual elements in eight contemporary Argentine and Chilean theater performances. Gail A. Bulman shows how staged images can awaken spectators' emotions to activate their intellect, provoking nuanced and deep contemplation of social, historical, and political themes. Ranging from simple props, costumes, body movements and spatial constructions to integrated media and digital images, the aesthetic components in these pieces engage to forge multifaceted storytelling, stimulate the public's relation to memory, and create affective bonds that help build individual and collective social consciousness. Recent innovations in Southern Cone theatre aesthetics have been shifting traditional performance/spectator relationships and animating ideological discussions. The various works presented here give readers a holistic understanding of the emerging prominence of visuality and affect as a vehicle for political advocacy in Latin American theatre and performance. The book asks us to consider the formation of new spectator-performance bonds as authors, directors, and theatre groups increasingly turn toward alternative settings for their work. Lingering visual memories of the performances, together with the feelings that the performative experience stirs up, provide spectators with an enduring focal point through which to reflect on and judge what is "beyond" the performed scenes. Staged live in the Southern Cone and internationally since 2014, these plays demonstrate the transgressive power of the visual to make spectators see, feel, and potentially act against injustices and violence. This study offers comprehensive critical discussions of Teatro Banda's O'Higgins: un hombre en pedazos; Teatro Nino Proletario's Fulgor; Mario, Luiggi y sus fantasmas's Manual de carrona; Agustin Leon Pruzzo's En la sombra de la cupula; Teatro la Maria's Los millonarios; Claudio Tolcachir's Proximo; Sergio Blanco's Tebas Land; and Lola Arias's Doble de Riesgo.

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Intertextuality and Nation in Contemporary Latin American Theater

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Intertextuality and Nation in Contemporary Latin American Theater

By: Gail A. Bulman

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Bucknell University Press

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083875676X

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9780838756768

Feeling the Gaze

Image and Affect in Contemporary Argentine and Chilean Performance

By: Gail Bulman

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Image and Affect in Contemporary Argentine and Chilean Performance

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Staging Words, Performing Worlds

Staging Words, Performing Worlds

Feeling the Gaze

Feeling the Gaze

Staging Words, Performing Worlds

Staging Words, Performing Worlds

Feeling the Gaze

Feeling the Gaze

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