Includes bibliographical references (pages [125]-130).
Contents:
Prologue: ghosts of revolution and theatre -- Introduction: theatrical imaginary as a tactic to history -- The theatrics of colonial power and the theatre of revolt -- Rituals and masks: a presentational remnant of a performance of El Gueguense -- War and theatre de Guerrillas: Somoza and Sandino -- Insurrectionary theatre: dictatorship, theatrics, and revolution -- Theatre in revolution: a theatre and cultural renascence -- Reverse performances and the ghosts of revolution -- Conclusion: the beginning/end of reflection.
Summary:
"This book examines the critical connection between revolts and revolutions to larger notions of social and cultural performances in Nicaraguan social, cultural and political life. To understand social relations in Nicaragua today, it is crucial to look at those highly theatricalized and rhetorical performances of power and resistance that have spanned specific national spaces for centuries. The book looks, therefore, at the history of Nicaragua from the colonial period to the Sandinista Revolution to frame contingent and temporal social and cultural processes that have become heightened and revealing of the social relations in revolution. The contemporary staging of the ancient El Gueguense play, for instance, illustrates a social space that reveals contemporary issues of oppression and power. Tapping into the spirit of self-consciousness, reflexivity, and narrational disruptions, the book uses the conventions of theatre such as audience and actor relations to make available to readers the theatrical intimacy of interlocutors and researcher." -- back cover.
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