The Leper in Blue: Coercive Performance and the Contemporary Latin American Theater

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Drawing upon contemporary theoretical debates surrounding performance, gender, and Latin American studies, The Leper in Blue examines representations of performance within dramatic texts. The book treats the work of playwrights such as Vincente Le§ero, Sabina Berman, Mariela Romero, Griselda Gambaro, Maruxa Vilalta, and Rosario Castellanos, who depict the freedom of performance within a framework of compulsion.

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Drawing upon contemporary theoretical debates surrounding performance, gender, and Latin American studies, The Leper in Blue examines representations of performance within dramatic texts. The book treats the work of playwrights such as Vincente Le§ero, Sabina Berman, Mariela Romero, Griselda Gambaro, Maruxa Vilalta, and Rosario Castellanos, who depict the freedom of performance within a framework of compulsion.

Individual chapters focus on the transformation of historical narratives, ritual game playing, the performance of gender, the staging of torture, and, finally, nonperformance—the representation of coercive performances that are at once demanded and denied. The plays examined not only raise important questions about the nature of performance but also shed light on many of the crucial sociopolitical issues of twentieth-century Latin America, among them economic instability, political repression, state violence, and dictatorship.

About the Author:
Amalia Gladhart is assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 9
Introduction: The Blue Leper 11
1 Performance, Textuality, and the Narration of History 29
2 Feigned Paralysis: Performance and Games 75
3 Playing Gender 111
4 Torture on Stage 154
5 Nothing's Happening: Performance as Coercion 192
Conclusion: Displacement, Replay 217
Works Cited 228
Index 238
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