Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Carlos Manuel Varela and the Duty to Remember; 2 Boal and Guarnieri: Historical Allegory and the Duty to Inspire; 3 Griselda Gambaro: Abstract Allegory and the Duty to Conceal; 4 Juan Radrigan and the Duty to Tell; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index
Summary
In this timely study, Puga compares contemporary Southern Cone playwrights and their aesthetic strategies for subverting ideologies of dictatorship; in the process, she traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elaboration in two different kinds of allegory
