Flagelo: mask and denunciation The Indigenist Theater of Jorge Icaza

This article seeks to account for the indigenist project of Ecuadorian writer Jorge Icaza (Quito, 1906-1978) by exploring a minor and relatively little known work of the author: the play Flagelo. Presumably written in 1932 and published for the first time in 1936, Flagelo may well be taken as the ga...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Landázuri, Andrés
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Ecuador
Institución:Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar
Repositorio:Revista Andina de Letras y Estudios Culturales
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.uasb.edu.ec:article/3045
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/kipus/article/view/3045
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Jorge Icaza
indigenismo
Flagelo
realismo social
denuncia
teatro
indigenism
social realism
denunciation
theater
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Sumario:This article seeks to account for the indigenist project of Ecuadorian writer Jorge Icaza (Quito, 1906-1978) by exploring a minor and relatively little known work of the author: the play Flagelo. Presumably written in 1932 and published for the first time in 1936, Flagelo may well be taken as the gateway to Icaza’s indigenism, understood as a specific delimitation within “Ecuadorian social realism”. An attempt is made to provide a reading that exposes the procedures and conflicts that give rise to the work in question, while allowing to establish its ideologized and political character, without undermining its artistic workmanship and its particular successes as a scenic product.