Title Disappearing acts : spectacles of gender and nationalism in Argentina's "dirty war" / Diana Taylor

Published Durham : Duke University Press, [1997] ©1997

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Description xii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents 1. Caught in the Spectacle -- 2. Gendering the National "Self" -- 3. Military Males, "Bad" Women, and a Dirty, Dirty War -- 4. The Theatre of Operations: Performing Nation-ness in the Public Sphere -- 5. Percepticide -- 6. Disappearing Bodies: Writing Torture and Torture as Writing -- 7. Trapped in Bad Scripts: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo -- 8. Staging Battles of Gender and Nation-ness: Teatro Abierto 1981 -- 9. Crossing the Line: Watching Violence in the "Other" Country Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-303) and index Subject Argentine drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Disappeared persons -- Argentina. Theater -- Political aspects -- Argentina. Violence -- Argentina -- History -- 20th century. SUBJECT Argentina http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79070134 -- Military policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002298 Argentina -- Politics and government -- 1955-1983. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007068 LC no. 96022185 ISBN 0822318687 (paperback: alk. paper) 0822318776 (cloth : alk. paper)

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