Rebels with a Cause in Contemporary Spanish Women Playwriting

Anthony Pasero-O’Malley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

220 Seiten

2022 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-8757-1 (ISBN)

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This book examines a selection of plays from four innovative women playwrights of the first two decades of 21st century Spain. By foregrounding female characters as the subjects and protagonists of their plays, Mar Gómez Glez, Carolina África, Lucía Miranda, and Marta Buchaca reinscribe the stage as a space for the productive exploration of female autonomy and individuation. This book further investigates the use the platform of the theatre and the expressive possibilities therein to portray the realities of gendered oppression and efforts to define subjectivity within a social context where confining patriarchal and dominant cultural conditions place severe strictures on women’s open search and development of selfhood and identity. The diversity of genres deployed in their respective approaches, spanning the subversion of realist conventions, the framework of historical drama, the communal potentialities of forum theatre, and experiential site-specific production, point to important innovations in contemporary stagecraft and performance.

Anthony Pasero-O’Malley is Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Davidson College, USA. His current research focuses on the ways in which contemporary Spanish theatre and performance for social justice and change engages a critical consciousness that examines current social issues reflected in lived experiences, historical memory, community-building and activism, and transitional and restorative justice. He has published in the journals Acotaciones, Anagnórisis, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Pasavento, Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades, Romance Quarterly, Spanish and Portuguese Review, and Symposium.

Erscheinungsdatum	13.09.2022
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-5275-8757-6 / 1527587576
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-8757-1 / 9781527587571
Zustand	Neuware