This collection of plays comes from one of Chile s finest voices of the voiceless: Juan Radrigan. A history marked by personal and political hardship has equipped Radrigan to tell the stories of those his nation left behind. Seven years old when his father abandoned his family, he was forced to work from an early age. As an adult, he worked as a manual laborer during a very dark time for Chile: the demise of Salvador Allende and the rise of General Augusto Pinochet. In a time of torture, exile, and political disappearances, his plays stood as quietly powerful anti-regime statements that...
This collection of plays comes from one of Chile s finest voices of the voiceless: Juan Radrigan. A history marked by personal and political hardsh...
Compares contemporary Southern Cone playwrights and their aesthetic strategies for subverting ideologies of dictatorship; in the process, she traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elabora
Compares contemporary Southern Cone playwrights and their aesthetic strategies for subverting ideologies of dictatorship; in the process, she traces t...