Twisting injustice’s whirl: theatre, Peruvian peasantry and social criticism in Víctor Zavala’s work
The dramatic work of Peruvian playwright Víctor Zavala Cataño (Huamantanga, 1932) provides a proposal of vindication of Peruvian peasantry based on a Marxist reading of the Andean reality. Through the analysis of his transcendental volume Teatro Campesino (1969) and the later Teatro popular I (1984)...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Repositorio: | Estudos Ibero-Americanos |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/24133 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/iberoamericana/article/view/24133 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Víctor Zavala Cataño Peruvian theatre Latin American theatre Peruvian politics indigenismo teatro peruano teatro latinoamericano política peruana teatro peruano contemporâneo teatro latino-americano |
| Sumario: | The dramatic work of Peruvian playwright Víctor Zavala Cataño (Huamantanga, 1932) provides a proposal of vindication of Peruvian peasantry based on a Marxist reading of the Andean reality. Through the analysis of his transcendental volume Teatro Campesino (1969) and the later Teatro popular I (1984) this contribution traces the ideological and artistic traits of these texts. In this sense, two different aspects should be pointed out: on the one hand, the portrait of the indigenous peasant as an autonomous political subject, who is willing to react against the source of his and her oppression in a revolutionary way. On the other hand, it highlights Zavala’s efforts to adapt Bertolt Brecht’s teachings to the Peruvian context to build his political and artistic discourses. Therefore, his plays are a link with previous indigenista Peruvian literary tradition, using mainly the dramatic work. The importance given to the indigenous peasant in Zavala’s work happens to be a breakthrough in the Peruvian theatrical tradition, and takes a path that many authors and theatrical groups will thoroughly follow in the years to come. |
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