After the Long Silence: The Theater of Brazil's Post-Dictatorship Generation

ISBN-13: 9781138608443 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 256 str.

Claudia Tatinge Nascimento

Opis

After the Long Silence offers a ground-breaking, meticulously researched criticism of Brazilian contemporary performance created by its post-dictatorship generation, whose work expresses the consequences of decades of state-imposed censorship.

Spis treści

The year is 1964: April Fools’, or a historical preface  1. The theatricalities of the post-dictatorship generation  2. To rehearse is to devour: cannibalizing the canon  3. Remembering in green and yellow, or the handiwork of telling  4. Theatrical entradas: expeditions into the territories of history  A postface, or the secret science of forgetting

O autorze

Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento is an artist-scholar with an interest in experimental and Brazilian performance. She is a professor and chair of the Theater and Dance Department at Macalester College.