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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300027303321

Autore

Garrett Victoria Lynn

Titolo

Performing Everyday Life in Argentine Popular Theater, 1890–1934 / / by Victoria Lynn Garrett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-92697-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 pages)

Collana

New Directions in Latino American Cultures

Disciplina

792.0982

Soggetti

Ethnology—Latin America

Theater—History

Latin America—History

Theater

Culture

Latin American Culture

Theatre History

Latin American History

Global/International Theatre and Performance

Global/International Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the prolific and widely-attended popular theater boom of the género chico criollo in the context of Argentina’s modernization. Victoria Lynn Garrett examines how selected plays mediated the impact of economic liberalism, technological changes, new competing and contradictory gender roles, intense labor union activity, and the foreign/nativist dichotomy. Popular theaters served as spaces for cultural agency by portraying conventional and innovative performances of daily life. This dramatic corpus was a critical mass



cultural medium that allowed audiences to evaluate the dominant fictions of liberal modernity, to critique Argentina’s purportedly democratic culture, and to imagine alternative performances of everyday life in accordance with their realities. Through a fresh look at the relationship among politics, economics, popular culture, and performance in Argentina’s modernization period, the book uncovers largely overlooked articulations of popular-class identities and desires for greater inclusion that would drive social and political struggles to this day.