Games and Play in the Theater of Spanish American Women

by Catherine Larson

Overview

In the seventeen dramatic texts examined in this study, women writers from Spanish America have self-consciously incorporated games into their plays’ structures to highlight from a woman’s perspective the idea that life, as well as
the theater, is a game.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611481976
Publisher:	University Press Copublishing Division
Publication date:	06/01/2004
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	9
1.	Introduction: Games, Play, and Theater	13
2.	Ludic Theory: Games and Drama Criticism	25
3.	Games in the Theater: Representation, Roleplaying, and the Search for Identity in Dramas by Elena Garro, Maritza Wilde, and Susana Torres Molina	39
4.	Violent Games in Plays by Roma Mahieu, Mariela Romero, and Griselda Gambaro	76
5.	Games and Gender Issues: Becoming Other in Dramas by Rosario Castellanos, Susana Torres Molina, and Diana Raznovich	95
6.	Games and/in Spanish American Society in Plays by Myrna Casas, Griselda Gambaro, and Josefina Pla	117
7.	Games and the Historical-Political Realities of Spanish America in Dramas by Griselda Gambaro, Jesusa Rodriguez, and Sabina Berman	133
8.	Conclusions: Only a Game or More than a Game?	158
	Notes	164
	Bibliography	198
	Index	213