Theatre and the Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting in Spain, Latin America and South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20156751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cathy Maree (University of South Africa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 299-321 |
| Publication date | 1998-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387 |
| Publisher | Unisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02564719808530205 |
| OpenAlex | W2035655165 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This article examines and compares ways in which theatre has confronted the legacy of gross human rights abuses perpetrated in Spain (the Franco era from 1939 to 1975), Argentina (the military juntas from 1976 to 1982), Chile (the Pinochet regime from 1973 to 1989) and South Africa (the apartheid era from 1948 to 1994). A critique is given on the problem of aestheticising atrocities: Should theatre represent the unrepresentable? Is a social science text the only appropriate site for recording such horrors? Does a stage production not risk transforming the real practice of torture into a fiction? The five play‐texts chosen for analysis and discussion are shown to respond to these questions in different ways
Forgetting · Human rights · Latin Americans · Political science · Sociology · Torture · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |