Staging Dictators: Latin American Authoritarianism in Brazilian Dramaturgy in 1968
From the mid-1950s onwards, Brazilian dramaturgy experienceda politicization process that brought to the stage theoretical, political and aesthetic debates that made this artistic language an important front-line agent of resistance to the military regime that would be settled in Brazil by the civil...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade de Brasília (UnB) |
| Repositorio: | Em Tempo de Histórias (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/40372 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/emtempos/article/view/40372 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Autoritarismo América Latina História e Teatro Authoritarianism Latin America History and Theater |
| Sumario: | From the mid-1950s onwards, Brazilian dramaturgy experienceda politicization process that brought to the stage theoretical, political and aesthetic debates that made this artistic language an important front-line agent of resistance to the military regime that would be settled in Brazil by the civil-military coup of 1964. This article aims to analyze how two Brazilian plays written in 1968, Papa Highirte (Oduvaldo Vianna Filho) and Dr. Getúlio, sua vida e sua glória (Dias Gomes and Ferreira Gullar), are inserted in the political and artistic debates of that moment by the critical representation of dictator characters that provoke reflection about the role of authoritarianism, its allies and ways of operating in the historical trajectory of Latin America, especially in the 20th century. |
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