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Article: The Leper in Blue: Coercive Performance and the Contemporary Latin American Theater.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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The Leper in Blue: Coercive Performance and the Contemporary Latin American Theater. By AMALIA GLADHART. (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, Department of Modern Languages. 2000. 245 pp. $34.95.
The book sets out to be a study of contemporary Latin American theatre, focusing on the interaction of the plays and their audiences. The strongest point of the volume is the introduction, which presents an in-depth analysis of the theory of performance, supported by an impressive overview of the existing body of research on the subject. Such an approach appeals both to specialists in Latin American ...