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Article: Gail Bulman. Staging Words, Performing Worlds: Intertextuality and Nation in Contemporary Latin American Theater.(Book review)
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GAIL BULMAN. Staging Words, Performing Worlds: Intertextuality and Nation in Contemporary Latin American Theater. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UR 2007. 276 pp.
THIS STUDY OFFERS an illuminating and thought-provoking assessment of how intertextuality informs emergent notions of nation in contemporary Latin American Theater. Meticulously researched and poised to address relationships between national and transnational, past and present, text and intertext, performance and script, Bulman's Staging Words argues that "intertextuality moves the text beyond a dialogue between texts and expands other meanings" (17). This emphasis on the potential for new frameworks and ...