Staging Lives in Latin American Theater
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Documentary theater in Latin America
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ethnographic studies
ex-torture sites
femicides
fiction and reality
forensic architecture
latinx
live archives
malleable props
maquilas
memory museums
migrant routes
postdictatorship Argentina and Chile
postmemory
Proyecto Archivos
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relational aesthetics
ritual theater
Site-specific performance
testimonial theater
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- ISBN 9780810143371
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2021
- Publisher: Northwestern University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives examines twenty-first-century documentary theater in Latin America, focusing on important plays by the Argentine director Vivi Tellas, the Argentine playwright and director Lola Arias, the Mexican theater collective Teatro LÍnea de Sombra, and the Chilean playwright and director Guillermo CalderÓn. Paola S. HernÁndez demonstrates how material objects and archives—photographs, videos, and documents such as witness reports, legal briefs, and letters—come to life onstage. HernÁndez argues that present-day, live performances catalog these material archives, expanding and reinterpreting the objects’ meanings. These performances produce an affective relationship between actor and audience, visualizing truths long obscured by repressive political regimes and transforming theatrical spaces into sites of witness. This process also highlights the liminality between fact and fiction, questioning the veracity of the archive.
Richly detailed, nuanced, and theoretically wide-ranging, Staging Lives in Latin American Theater reveals a range of interpretations about how documentary theater can conceptualize the idea of self while also proclaiming a new mode of testimony through theatrical practices.
Richly detailed, nuanced, and theoretically wide-ranging, Staging Lives in Latin American Theater reveals a range of interpretations about how documentary theater can conceptualize the idea of self while also proclaiming a new mode of testimony through theatrical practices.
Paola S. HernÁndez is a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and in the Interdisciplinary Theater Studies program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she is also director of the Center for Visual Cultures. She is the author of El teatro de Argentina y Chile: GlobalizaciÓn, resistencia y desencanto and the coeditor of two volumes, Imagining Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century Theater: Global Perspectives and Biodrama: Proyecto Archivos; Seis documentales escÉnicos.
