A new book from Ediciones de GESTOS:

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Lola Proaño-Gómez

Poéticas de la globalización
en el teatro latinoamericano 

[Includes a DVD with video clips of plays]

ISBN 978- 0-9749239-2-5

US $ 22.50*

*Shipping and Handling: USA: $ 4.50. 
Europe and Latin America: US $ 10.


Poéticas de la globalización en el teatro latinoamericano is a unique book. It discusses very important contemporary topics, analyzes in depth some important plays, their meaning, theatrical codes, staging and significance in contemporary Latin American politics. It also includes a DVD with excellent videos of representative scenes of plays discussed in the book so that the critic and student have the opportunity to “see” actual clips of the performed text, and they have the opportunity to discuss topics such as the visual signs, acting, lighting, the stage, the music and sound effects in conjunction with the dramatic text.

Some of the chapters focus on: Utopia and dystopia in Latin American stages; the disappearance of Latin American political theater; the process of constructing meaning in Argentinian theater; Posmodernity and the visual metaphor in Hamlet Machine; Philosophic poetics by Aristides Vargas;  globalization from the perspective of Latin American stages; aesthetic and neoliberalism in Argentinian contemporary theater; Aesthetics and Human Rights; Memory, ritual, history and Latin American theater; the theatricality of the female body; Politics, theater and globalization; the representation of marginal social groups at the time of globalization, the representation of exiles in Latin American theater.

Please, order your copy for you or your library from: gestos@uci.edu

  GESTOS. Revista de Teoría y práctica del teatro
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