Theatrical Topographies

Spatial Crises in Uruguayan Theater Post-2001

Sarah M. Misemer

The economic crisis in Argentina in 2001-2002 that spilled over into Uruguay causing fiscal and political problems is the starting point for my research on space and theater, and it demonstrates why we must look at the River Plate in both global and local ways. Connections among monetary policies, industries, and legal, social, and political movements mean that national spaces like Uruguay’s are fraught with tensions that come from both within and outside of borders. Recent economic crises like the one that is occurring in Greece, further demonstrate how nation states and trade blocks must constantly negotiate power as they toggle between national and international pressures. Nation states are being prompted to reconceive perspectives on governance that fall away from the parameters of Westphalian autonomy and reconcile their views with trends that instead require thinking about power as a network with shifting centers.

The introduction launches the study by addressing these political and economic trends, the spatial turn in theater and performance studies, the rise of multiculturalism, and also examines the Uruguayan historical context of the post-dictatorship and impunity laws that pit national sovereignty against international human rights laws. These crises are enacted on the Uruguayan stage and contextualized through networks and spatial topographies, intertextualties on the page, explorations of history and memory, and ultimately notions of identity in four areas: the postdramatic and economic realm (chapter one: Peveroni), cultural geography and pyschogeography (chapter two: Morena), midrash and questions of human rights and growing fascist trends (chapter three: Sanguinetti), and finally in mapmaking on the stage through mise-en-perf/performise and “wayfinding” through sites of contested power (chapter four: Calderón). The concluding chapter (Blanco) looks at the reinterpretation of Greek tragedy as a commentary on the messy process of democratization. Here, access to the polis and power are problematized through the lens of international sex trafficking and gendered roles that exclude portions of the populace from participation in the process of self-governance.

University Press Copublishing Division / Bucknell University Press

Pages: 228 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½

978-1-61148-797-8 • Hardback • June 2017 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-1-61148-798-5 • eBook • June 2017 • $105.00 • (£81.00)

Subjects: Performing Arts / Theater / General, Social Science / Gender Studies, Social Science / Cultural Geography

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Spatial Crises in Uruguayan Theater Post-2001

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The economic crisis in Argentina in 2001-2002 that spilled over into Uruguay causing fiscal and political problems is the starting point for my research on space and theater, and it demonstrates why we must look at the River Plate in both global and local ways. Connections among monetary policies, industries, and legal, social, and political movements mean that national spaces like Uruguay’s are fraught with tensions that come from both within and outside of borders. Recent economic crises like the one that is occurring in Greece, further demonstrate how nation states and trade blocks must constantly negotiate power as they toggle between national and international pressures. Nation states are being prompted to reconceive perspectives on governance that fall away from the parameters of Westphalian autonomy and reconcile their views with trends that instead require thinking about power as a network with shifting centers.

The introduction launches the study by addressing these political and economic trends, the spatial turn in theater and performance studies, the rise of multiculturalism, and also examines the Uruguayan historical context of the post-dictatorship and impunity laws that pit national sovereignty against international human rights laws. These crises are enacted on the Uruguayan stage and contextualized through networks and spatial topographies, intertextualties on the page, explorations of history and memory, and ultimately notions of identity in four areas: the postdramatic and economic realm (chapter one: Peveroni), cultural geography and pyschogeography (chapter two: Morena), midrash and questions of human rights and growing fascist trends (chapter three: Sanguinetti), and finally in mapmaking on the stage through mise-en-perf/performise and “wayfinding” through sites of contested power (chapter four: Calderón). The concluding chapter (Blanco) looks at the reinterpretation of Greek tragedy as a commentary on the messy process of democratization. Here, access to the polis and power are problematized through the lens of international sex trafficking and gendered roles that exclude portions of the populace from participation in the process of self-governance.

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University Press Copublishing Division / Bucknell University Press

Pages: 228 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½

978-1-61148-797-8 • Hardback • June 2017 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-1-61148-798-5 • eBook • June 2017 • $105.00 • (£81.00)

Subjects: Performing Arts / Theater / General, Social Science / Gender Studies, Social Science / Cultural Geography

Author

Sarah M. Misemer is associate professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Spatial Crises and Theatrical Topographies p.1
Chapter 1: Textual Landscapes: Postdramatic Triptychs, Bifurcations, and Bio-Politics in Gabriel Peveroni’s Trilogy
Chapter 2: Alternative Cartographies: Marianella Morena’s Women’s Spaces and Journeys
Chapter 3: Deluges, Holocausts, and Neo-Fascism: Exposing the Gaps through Performance Space in Santiago Sanguinetti’s in Ararat and Nuremberg
Chapter 4: Mapmaking and Wayfinding in Gabriel Calderón’s Staged Worlds
Conclusion: Sergio Blanco’s Kassandra Complex: Transvestite Performances and Clothing Landscapes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Theatrical Topographies

Spatial Crises in Uruguayan Theater Post-2001

Sarah M. Misemer

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Spatial Crises in Uruguayan Theater Post-2001

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