Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage

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CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CHAPTER 1 STAGING THE EUROPEAN CLASSICAL IN ‘LATIN’ AMERICA: AN INTRODUCTION
	‘Latin’ America?
	Latin America and the postcolonial
	Latin American receptions beyond hybridity
	Why drama?
PART I SOUTHERN CONE
CHAPTER 2 FROM EPIC TO TRAGEDY: THEATRE AND POLITICS IN JUAN CRUZ VARELA’S DIDO
	Margin vs. centre
	Dido’s homosociality
CHAPTER 3 LEOPOLDO MARECHAL’S ANTÍGONA VÉLEZ: REWRITING GREEK TRAGEDY AS A FOUNDATION MYTH IN PERONIST ARGENTINA
	Catholic nationalism, Peronism and myths of the nation
	Antigone as a foundation myth
CHAPTER 4 JUAN RADRIGÁN’S MEDEA MAPUCHE: RECREATING EURIPIDES’ REVENGE TRAGEDY IN AN INDIGENOUS CHILEAN CONTEXT
	The political and cultural setting of the play
	Departures from Euripides’ Medea, or why Kütral becomes ‘Medea’
CHAPTER 5 PHILOCTETES AND MEDEA IN CONTEMPORARY CHILEAN THEATRE
	Filoctetes (la herida y el arco)
	Diarrea
	‘Chile is not that pretty’
PART II BRAZIL
CHAPTER 6 A GOD SLEPT HERE BY GUILHERME FIGUEIREDO: A RADICAL MODERNIST AMPHITRUO FROM BRAZIL
	The double layer of metatheatre
	The reinterpretation of the roles of husband and wife
	Amphitryon Zero
CHAPTER 7 GUILHERME FIGUEIREDO, AMPHITRYON AND THE WIDOW OF EPHESUS: LINKING PLAUTUS AND PETRONIUS
	Figueiredo’s Widow of Ephesus as a Petronian adaptation
	Figueiredo’s Widow of Ephesus as a case of contaminatio
CHAPTER 8 ELECTRA’S TURN TO THE DARK SIDE: NELSON RODRIGUES’ SENHORA DOS AFOGADOS
	A nexus of receptions, ancient and modern
	The turn to the dark side
	The chorus in Rodrigues
	Conclusion
CHAPTER 9 BECOMING ANTIGONE: THE CLASSICS AS A MODEL OF RESISTANCE IN JORGE ANDRADE’S PEDREIRA DAS ALMAS
	Pedreira das Almas: The historical setting of the play
	Mariana becoming Antigone
	Pedreira das Almas as a symbol of resistance
	Conclusion – Andrade as Antigone
PART III THE CARIBBEAN AND NORTH AMERICA
CHAPTER 10 DISTORTING THE LYSISTRATA PARADIGM IN PUERTO RICO: FRANCISCO ARRIVÍ’S CLUB DE SOLTEROS
	Adapting Lysistrata in the modern world
	Comic rewritings in the modern world
	Club de Solteros and Puerto Rican drama
CHAPTER 11 CHALLENGING THE CANON IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: LISÍSTRATA ODIA LA POLÍTICA BY FRANKLIN DOMÍNGUEZ
	A Dominican Lysistrata
	Challenging definitions in antiquity and modernity
	Reconstructing Lysistrata through the Dominican lens
CHAPTER 12 AESCHYLUS AND THE CUBAN COUNTER-REVOLUTION
	Arrufat’s polyphonic chorus
	The shield scene
	Etéocles and Polinice
	An unexpected ending
CHAPTER 13 THE CONTEST BETWEEN CRÉOLITÉ AND CLASSICS IN PATRICK CHAMOISEAU’S STAGE PLAYS
	Une Manière d’Antigone
	Manman Dlo contre la fée Carabosse
CHAPTER 14 DISMANTLING THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL MACHINE: FELIKS MORISO-LEWA’S ANTIGÒN AND LUIS ALFARO’S ELECTRICIDAD
	Moriso’s Antigòn
	Alfaro’s Electricidad
	Conclusions: Agamben, bare life and the classical tradition
CHAPTER 15 ANTIGONE UNDEAD: TRAGEDY AND BIOPOLITICS IN PERLA DE LA ROSA’S ANTÍGONA: LAS VOCES QUE INCENDIAN EL DESIERTO
	Antigones undead: Symbolic death in Sophocles and the Sophoclean tradition
	Antigone reanimated: Symbolic death in de la Rosa’s Antígona
	Biopolitics
	Conclusions
NOTES
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