Staging Words, Performing Worlds: Intertextuality and Nation in Contemporary Latin American Theater

by Gail A. Bulman

Staging Words, Performing Worlds presents new perspectives on Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela and their theater by theorizing how, through performance, nation can be "re-imagined" and reconstructed. Each chapter frames the sociopolitical and theatrical national context and presents a theoretical analysis of the dramatic and ideological functions of intertexts in plays by Victor Hugo, Rasc n Banda, Maruxa Vilalta, C sar Rengifo, N stor...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161148278X
• ISBN13: 9781611482782
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 276 Pages