Performing Everyday Life in Argentine Popular Theater, 1890-1934

ISBN-13: 9783319926964 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 226 str.

Victoria Lynn Garrett

Opis

This book examines the prolific and widely-attended popular theater boom of the genero chico criollo in the context of Argentina's modernization.

Spis treści

1. Performing Everyday Life

2. Performing Inclusion and Disillusion

3. Embodying Modernity

4. Modern Families and Degeneration

5. Sex, Desire, and Violence

6. Criollos, Caudillos, and the Violent State

7. Performing Protest

O autorze

Victoria Lynn Garrett is Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at the College of Charleston, USA, where she specializes in Performance and Visual Studies, primarily in Argentina and Mexico. She and Pablo García Loaeza are co-authors of The Improbable Conquest: Letters from the Río de la Plata, 1537-1556. Her work has appeared in Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Hispania, Romance Quarterly, and other edited volumes.