Torcer el remolino de injusticia: teatro, campesinado peruano y denuncia social en Víctor Zavala

[EN] 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 (...

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Autor: Gallardo Saborido, Emilio J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/272612
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/272612
https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-864X.2017.1.24133
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Víctor Zavala Cataño
Peruvian theatre
Latin American theatre
Peruvian politics
Indigenismo
Teatro peruano contemporâneo
Teatro latino-americano
Política peruana
Teatro peruano
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Sumario:[EN] 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