59 research outputs found
Recontando la resistencia: nuevas narrativas míticas e históricas en el teatro de Romero, Resino, Pascual y de Paco Serrano
No full textIn this article we will look at a small but cohesive sample of plays by female dramatists of democratic Spain from the 1980’s to the present, in which the dramatic retelling of history and myth has evolved in time as it accompanied the emergence of stronger female narratives. We will focus on plays that feature female protagonists whom we think we already know from history or mythology and who confront culturally predominant male narratives. In each case, the playwright offers her characters a unique opportunity to deconstruct and re-write these stories, or even to demythify and re-inscribe myth. These writers emphasize the credibility of their female characters as they urge their spectators to question the legitimacy of traditional patriarchal roles for women and to look beyond a purely masculine point of view to a more pertinent and comprehensive view of the problems that exist in the world outside the theater.En este artículo veremos una muestra pequeña pero coherente de obras de dramaturgas de la España democrática, desde los años 80 hasta la actualidad, en las que se ve una relectura de la historia y del mito. Nos centraremos en las obras protagonizadas por mujeres que ya reconocemos de la historia o de la mitología y veremos cómo estas figuras se enfrentan a las narrativas masculinas predominantes. En cada caso, la dramaturga ofrece a sus personajes una oportunidad única para deconstruir y re-escribir estas historias, o incluso para desmitificar y luego re-escribir unos mitos. Estas escritoras enfatizan la credibilidad de sus personajes femeninos mientras piden a su público que cuestione la legitimidad de viejos papeles patriarcales para mujeres, que mire más allá de un punto de vista puramente masculino y que proponga una visión más pertinente y completa de los problemas que existen en el mundo fuera del teatro
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No full textD´Lugo, Marvin, M. Vernon, Kathleen, A Companion to Pedro Almodóvar. Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
Labanyi, Jo y Tatjana Pavlović. A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Nueva York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Pedrero, Paloma, y Serrano, Virtudes (ed.). Pájaros en la cabeza. Teatro a partir del siglo XXI. Madrid: Cátedra, 2013
Manías, absurdeces y grandes pequeñeces: De mutuo acuerdo y otras menudencias, de Diana M. de Paco Serrano
No full textLa urgencia del ahora: temas apremiantes en el teatro español del siglo XXI escrito por mujeres
No full textEn este ensayo, se estudiará cómo algunas de las dramaturgas españolas del siglo XXI abordan temas globales apremiantes que incluyen la memoria histórica, la crisis climática, los efectos deshumanizadores de la migración forzada, la raza y el colonialismo, la desaparición de los vestigios que quedan de la humanidad y la agencia femenina. Mediante una poderosa mezcla de contenido y forma, las dramaturgas captan la urgencia del momento actual e inspiran a su público para que haga balance de su apatía y se implique más activamente en cambios sociales necesarios.
RESEÑA de: Bueno, Lourdes; Gabriele, John P.; Leonard, Candyce (eds.). Acto seguido: el personaje del teatro español contemporáneo a escena. Wiston-Salem, North Carolina : Teatro, 2012.
No full textActo seguido: el personaje del teatro español contemporáneo a escena. Wiston-Salem, North Carolina : Teatro, 2012.
No full textDiana M. de Paco Serrano’s Killers: the Challenges of Staging Violence Perpetrated by Women
No full textLa urgencia del ahora: temas apremiantes en el teatro español del siglo XXI escrito por mujeres
No full textThis essay will explore how some of Spain's 21st century female playwrights address pressing global issues including historical memory, the climate crisis, the dehumanizing effects of forced migration, race and colonialism, the disappearance of the remaining vestiges of humanity, and female agency. Through a powerful blend of content and form, the playwrights capture the urgency of the present moment and inspire their audiences to take stock of their apathy and become more actively involved in needed social change.En este ensayo, se estudiará cómo algunas de las dramaturgas españolas del siglo XXI abordan temas globales apremiantes que incluyen la memoria histórica, la crisis climática, los efectos deshumanizadores de la migración forzada, la raza y el colonialismo, la desaparición de los vestigios que quedan de la humanidad y la agencia femenina. Mediante una poderosa mezcla de contenido y forma, las dramaturgas captan la urgencia del momento actual e inspiran a su público para que haga balance de su apatía y se implique más activamente en cambios sociales necesarios
Recontando la resistencia: nuevas narrativas míticas e históricas en el teatro de Romero, Resino, Pascual y de Paco Serrano
No full textIn this article we will look at a small but cohesive sample of plays by female dramatists of democratic Spain from the 1980’s to the present, in which the dramatic retelling of history and myth has evolved in time as it accompanied the emergence of stronger female narratives. We will focus on plays that feature female protagonists whom we think we already know from history or mythology and who confront culturally predominant male narratives. In each case, the playwright offers her characters a unique opportunity to deconstruct and re-write these stories, or even to demythify and re-inscribe myth. These writers emphasize the credibility of their female characters as they urge their spectators to question the legitimacy of traditional patriarchal roles for women and to look beyond a purely masculine point of view to a more pertinent and comprehensive view of the problems that exist in the world outside the theater.En este artículo veremos una muestra pequeña pero coherente de obras de dramaturgas de la España democrática, desde los años 80 hasta la actualidad, en las que se ve una relectura de la historia y del mito. Nos centraremos en las obras protagonizadas por mujeres que ya reconocemos de la historia o de la mitología y veremos cómo estas figuras se enfrentan a las narrativas masculinas predominantes. En cada caso, la dramaturga ofrece a sus personajes una oportunidad única para deconstruir y re-escribir estas historias, o incluso para desmitificar y luego re-escribir unos mitos. Estas escritoras enfatizan la credibilidad de sus personajes femeninos mientras piden a su público que cuestione la legitimidad de viejos papeles patriarcales para mujeres, que mire más allá de un punto de vista puramente masculino y que proponga una visión más pertinente y completa de los problemas que existen en el mundo fuera del teatro
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Surrogate Histories: (De)Mythifying the Franco-female in transitionary Spain
No full textWithin the context of Franco Spain, academic scholarship has proven that the regime manipulated collective history via both active remembering and active forgetting in order to construct legitimacy and a national identity. Moreover, much of the regime’s mythology was based on predetermined concepts of gender difference that was exacerbated by the influence of the Catholic church. In this way, what it meant to be female during the Franco dictatorship was a large part of what came to be the nationalized-gender-mythology of the regime, or rather – myths that constructed the Franco-female. On the one hand, the regime constructed mythology that actively forget Red female heritage through brutal sociological as well as physical repression that was targeted specifically towards women. On the other hand, the regime enacted mythology of active remembering that canonized popular imagery and history in order to reconstruct a type of womanhood that lay between the crossroads of the golden age of the Spanish empire and Catholicism. Although my analysis does not in any way suggest that the female experience is ever singular, it is clear that regardless of whether or not ones actions were inherently in defiance of or in accordance with the myths of femininity propagated by the regime, it cannot be discounted that the dichotomy between what was acceptable or unacceptable behavior defined female existence, or at the very least the performance of femininity. Surrogate histories are cultural products, authored by women, that implement narratorial and performative strategies of surrogacy in order to define and recognize gender-specific traumas incurred during the Franco dictatorship in Spain. These traumas are constructed via the use of site-specific histories that deal directly with the nationalized-gender-mythology of the Franco regime. By appropriating and textually deconstructing the same myths that were used during the dictatorship to both define and limit femininity in the service of nationhood, these cultural products succeed in (de)mythifying what I have called the Franco-female.Through the (de)mythification process, surrogate histories create a path that highlights the ways in which much of the nationalized-gender-mythology has outlasted the dictatorship as well as the Transition, and thus problematizes the systemic gender violence that plagues contemporary Spanish society.Hispanic Literatures & LinguisticsDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.
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