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Violent Acts
A Study of Violence in Contemporary Latin American Theatre

Severino João Albuquerque 		Albuquerque's cogent and incisive analysis of violence in the Latin American theatre covers the period from the 1950s through the 1980s. While not ignoring the socio-political contexts of violence, he focuses on the manifestations of violence in the texts themselves— language, action, lighting, silence. These, along with others, he examines against a backdrop of contemporary semiotic and dramatic theory as well as current social realties.
Albuquerque argues that in the face of repression, censorship, persecution, arrests and torture, Latin American playwrights have chosen to counter this victimization with an art form that is often as urgent as the confrontation in the street. A number of them have found violence to be both a pertinent theme and a mode of expression. It is , for them, markedly suited to the artistic manifestation of their own commitment to socio-political change.		 1. Verbal Violence
2. Nonverbal Violence
3. Representing Repression and Resistance
4. Representing the Unrepresentable
5. Representing the Violent Double
 
$52.95s cloth / ISBN 0-8143-2243-3
$22.95s paper / ISBN 0-8143-2244-1

300 pages

1991