{"product_id":"staging-lives-in-latin-american-theater-bodies-objects-archives-hardback-9780810143371","title":"Staging Lives in Latin American Theater; Bodies, Objects, Archives (Hardback) 9780810143371","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStaging Lives in Latin American Theater\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBodies, Objects, Archives\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePaola Hernández (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810143371\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 April 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages, 13 black \u0026amp; white images\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.333 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eStaging Lives in Latin American Theater\u003c\/i\u003e Paola S. HernÁndez offers a remarkable account of the emergence of new documentary theater in Latin America. Through meticulous analysis of object-props, autobiographical performance, and reenactment practices, HernÁndez shows how archives come to life onstage and participate in reshaping notions of the self and the real. \u003ci\u003eStaging Lives in Latin American Theater\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential read for understanding how documentary theater contributes to redefining the archive and related concepts of truth-telling, testimony, and evidence in Latin America.\" —Brenda Werth, author of \u003ci\u003eTheatre, Performance and Memory Politics in Argentina\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eStaging Lives in Latin American Theater\u003c\/i\u003e is a major contribution to the fields of Latin American theater and performance studies. HernÁndez offers a theoretically sophisticated and eminently readable analysis of how the theater of the ‘real’ comes to embody a broad range of aesthetic positions within the liminal space of fact and fiction. In each of the cases, the playwrights and performance artists mobilize the archive to flip accepted social norms and values around the concepts of truth and authenticity . . . HernÁndez’s theoretical range is remarkable.\" —Analola Santana, author of \u003ci\u003eFreak Performances: Dissidence in Latin American Theater\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A welcome, timely, and significant contribution to Latin American theater and performance studies, \u003ci\u003eStaging Lives in Latin American Theater\u003c\/i\u003e offers meticulously researched case studies of recent projects from Argentina, Chile, and Mexico, whose practitioners variously ‘kidnap reality,’ consider actors ‘stunt doubles of their own lives,’ self-consciously ‘manipulate’ the onstage role of the real, and employ theater as ‘evidentiary forum’ within the larger public arena. In this accomplished study, Paola S. HernÁndez encourages readers to reconsider the broader relationship between the effective and the affective, ultimately and importantly prodding us to complicate, question, and expand our own notions of the myriad roles documents—and the ‘authentic’—play in documentary theater produced in this hemisphere and across the globe.\" —Jean Graham-Jones, editor of \u003ci\u003eLola Arias: Re-enacting Life\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eEvita, Inevitably: Performing Argentina's Female Icons Before and After Eva PerÓn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eStaging Lives in Latin American Theater\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant study of what it means to bring (auto)biographical stories to the stage in a way that navigates fact and fiction, creating affective bonds. Audiences experience personal stories in a way that allows a profound connection to and reassessment of the past. HernÁndez at once affirms and rewrites Latin American (theater) history, mirroring the outstanding performances she analyzes.” —Stuart A. Day, author of \u003ci\u003eOutside Theater: Alliances That Shape Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eStaging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives\u003c\/i\u003e examines twenty-first-century documentary theater in Latin America, focusing on important plays by the Argentine director Vivi Tellas, the Argentine playwright and director Lola Arias, the Mexican theater collective Teatro LÍnea de Sombra, and the Chilean playwright and director Guillermo CalderÓn. Paola S. HernÁndez demonstrates how material objects and archives—photographs, videos, and documents such as witness reports, legal briefs, and letters—come to life onstage. HernÁndez argues that present-day, live performances catalog these material archives, expanding and reinterpreting the objects’ meanings. These performances produce an affective relationship between actor and audience, visualizing truths long obscured by repressive political regimes and transforming theatrical spaces into sites of witness. This process also highlights the liminality between fact and fiction, questioning the veracity of the archive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Richly detailed, nuanced, and theoretically wide-ranging,\u003ci\u003e Staging Lives in Latin American Theater\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a range of interpretations about how documentary theater can conceptualize the idea of self while also proclaiming a new mode of testimony through theatrical practices.\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNote on Translation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: The Real on Stage: New Modes of Documentary Theater \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Vivi Tellas: Biodramas and the Act of Documenting Lives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Reenactments: The Autobiographical at Play in Lola Arias\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Shadows of the Real: Teatro LÍ\u003cbr\u003enea de Sombra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Memory Sites: Guillermo CalderÓ\u003cbr\u003en’\u003cbr\u003es Excavation for the Truth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555667177752,"sku":"9780810143371","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/staging-lives-in-latin-american-theater-bodies-objects-archives-hardback-9780810143371","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}