Chilean Theater, 1973-1985
Marginality, Power, Selfhood
Description:... In the primary chapters of the book the themes, language, and images of the stage are studied: themes of unemployment, and marginality; perceptions of totalitarian rule, which emerge as images of a limbo-like society, stagnating behind a facade of perfection and prosperity; the "forgotten people" who populate the work of a new dramatist, Juan Radigan; and the new theme of political exile and return. Alongside themes of contemporary relevance, there has been a constant exploration of the state of the individual in dictatorship. There is an overwhelming impression of a society in a state of impasse, with a mass of people who feel socially, economically, or culturally marginalized.
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