ANTÍGONA PÉREZ AND SENSATIONALISM: THE BREAKING UP OF A TOTALITARIAN SYSTEM

Authors

  • Gina Beltrán Valencia University of Toronto

Keywords:

Latin American theatre, sensationalism, Luis Rafael Sánchez, Antigone, theatre and dictatorship

Abstract

This article focuses on Luis Rafael Sánchez’s play La pasión según Antígona Pérez: crónica americana en dos actos (1968). The Puerto Rican author rewrites the tragic myth of Sophocles’ Antigone by reconfiguring the dramatic core of antagonistic powers in the context of a Latin American dictatorship. The article investigates the way in which the play rejects the determining and universal worldviews contained in the structural models of Greek tragedy and Christianity, and instead centers on the question of power within a contemporary space of media and sensationalism. The purpose is to show how Antígona Pérez uncovers the State as a sense-producing entity and reveals its propagandistic apparatus and material limits through an act of interpretation and political difference. The article concludes stressing the protagonist’s dramatic and revolutionary power in her ability to disarticulate the ideological coherence of a totalitarian system.

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Beltrán Valencia, G. (2014). ANTÍGONA PÉREZ AND SENSATIONALISM: THE BREAKING UP OF A TOTALITARIAN SYSTEM. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (10), 35–49. Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/452f/article/view/10909

Issue

No. 10 (2014): Theatre and Dictatorship in the 20th Century

Section

Monograph

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