Theatre, Performance, and Memory Politics in Argentina

BRENDA WERTH Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at American University, USA.

• Introduction Transition and the Performance of Retroactive Justice From Antigone to Orpheus: Alternative Myths and Figures of Mourning The Performance of Confession Onstage and on the Stand Argentina's Postdictatorial Stages: Resting Places and Places of Unrest Argentina's Middle Class: Paradigm of Crisis and Renewal Intergenerational Memory and Performative Acts of Recovery Conclusion

"An immensely readable account of complex, shifting definitions in historical evolution." - CHOICE