From collectivism to professionalism : the struggle for the survival of social protest theatre in post-1980s latinx America
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The contentious political climate of the 1960s and 1970s gave birth to an abundance of social protest theatre collectives (SPT) dedicated to illustrated the needs of marginalized communities and advocated for liberation in the United States and Latin America. By employing a hemispheric methodology, this dissertation examines how Latin American social protest collectives survived beyond this initial historical phase by surveying their work after 1980. Focusing on US-based production company El Teatro Campesino (the Farmworkers Theatre), premier Peruvian performance collective Teatro Yuyachkani, and Mexico based collective Hijas de la violencia (daughters of violence), and Chilean based collective Lastesis, I investigate how the creative output of these collectives has been affected by institutionalization, digital media interventions, and ways in which their work has been narrated and archived. I argue that academic and capital-based institutionalization alters the subversive efficacy of the (SPT) genre and tactics of social protest theatre. I propose new ways of theorizing social protest theatre to enable a fuller understanding of the intersection between politics and performance.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Gutiérrez, Karina |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Elam, Harry Justin |
| Degree supervisor | Looser, Diana |
| Thesis advisor | Elam, Harry Justin |
| Thesis advisor | Looser, Diana |
| Thesis advisor | Huerta, Jorge A |
| Thesis advisor | Marino, Angela (Marino Segura) |
| Thesis advisor | Robinson, Aileen |
| Degree committee member | Huerta, Jorge A |
| Degree committee member | Marino, Angela (Marino Segura) |
| Degree committee member | Robinson, Aileen |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Theater and Performance Studies. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Karina Gutiérrez. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Theater and Performance Studies. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Karina Gutierrez
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC BY).
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