Offers the first interdisciplinary monograph on el género chico criollo, a prolific, massively consumed popular theater corpus that mediated Argentina's modernization Recovers and contextualizes once dominant but now widely overlooked popular perspectives on modernization in the periphery Highlights the political capacity of performative representations of everyday life

Autorentext

Victoria Lynn Garrett is Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at the College of Charleston, USA, where she specializes in Performance and Visual Studies, primarily in Argentina and Mexico. She and Pablo García Loaeza are co-authors of The Improbable Conquest: Letters from the Río de la Plata, 1537-1556. Her work has appeared in Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Hispania, Romance Quarterly,and other edited volumes.

Inhalt

1. Performing Everyday Life.- 2. Performing Inclusion and Disillusion.- 3. Embodying Modernity.- 4. Modern Families and Degeneration.- 5. Sex, Desire, and Violence.- 6. Criollos, Caudillos, and the Violent State.- 7. Performing Protest.