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PublisherSouthern Illinois University Press

ISBN-100809336294

ISBN-139780809336296

eBay Product ID (ePID)235972954

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Number of Pages264 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameMemory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina

SubjectTheater / General, Drama, Theater / History & Criticism, Theater / Direction & Production, Latin America / South America

Publication Year2017

TypeTextbook

AuthorNoë Montez

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Performing Arts, History

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight14.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2017-015367

Reviews"This book offers an important update to studies on Argentina's postdictatorship theatre, documenting the ways it has registered contested approaches to transitional justice strategies, which themselves embed changing understandings of the role of individual and collective memory."--Tamara L. Underiner, author of Contemporary Theatre in Mayan Mexico: Death-Defying Acts, "...this volume provides an excellent example of how to conduct and interweave an array of investigations into a cohesive and probing commentary on complex sociopolitical contexts. As such, this book deserves a home on the shelves of students and scholars of Argentine theatre, theatre history, and Latin American performance and politics alike." -- Kaitlin M. Murphy, author of Mapping Memory: Visuality, Affect, and Embodied Politics "This book offers an important update to studies on Argentina's postdictatorship theatre, documenting the ways it has registered contested approaches to transitional justice strategies, which themselves embed changing understandings of the role of individual and collective memory."--Tamara L. Underiner, author of Contemporary Theatre in Mayan Mexico: Death-Defying Acts, This book offers an important update to studies on Argentina's postdictatorship theatre, documenting the ways it has registered contested approaches to transitional justice strategies, which themselves embed changing understandings of the role of individual and collective memory."--Tamara L. Underiner, author of Contemporary Theatre in Mayan Mexico: Death-Defying Acts

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal792.0982/09049

Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Shaping Memory and Performance in Postdictatorship Argentina 1. Resisting the Menem Administration's Narratives of Reconciliation and Forgetting 2. Teatroxlaidentidad : The Right to Memory and Identity 3. Reparation, Commemoration, and Memory Construction in the Postdictatorship Generation 4. Performing Public Memorialization of the Malvinas War Conclusion: The Next Stages of Theatrical Production, Postdictatorship Memory, and Transitional Justice Notes Bibliography Index

SynopsisIn Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina, author Noe Montez considers how theatre, as a site of activism, can produce memory narratives that change the public's reception to governmental policies that address a previous regime's human rights violations. Drawing on contemporary research in transitional justice strategies, memory studies, and theatre history, Montez examines the Argentine theatre's responses to the numerous changes in the country's transitional justice policies - truth and reconciliation hearings, trials, amnesties and pardons, and memorial events and spaces - that have taken place in the last decade of the twentieth century and the first two decades of the twenty-first century. Montez explores how the sociohistorical phenomenon of Argentina's Teatroxlaidentidad - an annual showcase staged with the support of Argentina's Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo - acted as a vehicle for drawing attention to the hundreds of children kidnapped from their families during the dictatorship and why memory narratives regarding the Malvinas Islands (also known as the Falklands) range from ideological appropriations of the islands to absurdist commentaries about the failed war that signaled the dictatorship's end, to the islands' heavily contested status today. Plays studied include El Periférico de Objetos's Máquina Hamlet (1995), Mariana Eva Perez's Instrucciones para una collecionista de mariposas (2002), Lola Arias's Mi vida después (2009), and Patricio Abadi's Isla flotante (2015).,br> This book fills an important gap in Latin American theatre history and performance studies, exploring theatrical engagement in postdictatorship Argentina, analyzing plays by artists who have not yet been addressed in English-language articles and books, and exploring the practicalities of staging performances in Latin America., Author Noe Montez considers how theatre, as a site of activism, produces memory narratives that change public reception to a government's transitional justice policies. Drawing on contemporary research in memory studies and transitional justice, Montez examines the Argentine theatre's responses to the country's transitional justice policies--truth and reconciliation hearings, trials, amnesties and pardons, and memorial events and spaces--that have taken place in the last decade of the twentieth century and the first two decades of the twenty-first century. Montez explores how the sociohistorical phenomenon of the Teatroxlaidentidad --an annual showcase staged with the support of Argentina's Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo--acted as a vehicle for drawing attention to the hundreds of children kidnapped from their families during the dictatorship and looks at why the memory narratives regarding the Malvinas Islands (also known as the Falklands) range from ideological appropriations of the islands, to absurdist commentaries about the failed war that signaled the dictatorship's end, to the islands' heavily contested status today. Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina explores the vibrant role of theatrical engagement in postdictatorship Argentina, analyzes plays by artists long neglected in English-language articles and books, and explores the practicalities of staging performances in Latin America., Considers how theatre can produce memory narratives that change the public's reception to governmental policies that address a previous regime's human rights violations. Drawing on contemporary research in transitional justice strategies, memory studies, and theatre history, Noe Montez examines the Argentine theatre's responses to the numerous changes in the country's transitional justice policies.

LC Classification NumberPN2451.M59 2017