Description: In this work examining Argentine theatre over the past four decades and drawing on contemporary research, Noe Montez considers how theatre can serve as activism and alter public reception to a government addressing human rights violations by its predecessor.
Brief description: Noe Montez is an associate professor and the director of graduate studies in drama and dance at Tufts University. His essays have been published in Theatre Topics, Latin American Theatre Review, Texas Theatre Journal, New England Theatre Journal, the Journal of Religion and Theatre, Theatre History Studies, American Theatre and the edited collection Public Theatres and Theatre Publics.
Review Quotes: "...this volume provides an excellent example of how to conduct and interweave an array of investigations into a cohesive and probing commentary on complex sociopolitical contexts. As such, this book deserves a home on the shelves of students and scholars of Argentine theatre, theatre history, and Latin American performance and politics alike."-- Kaitlin M. Murphy, author of Mapping Memory: Visuality, Affect, and Embodied Politics
"This book offers an important update to studies on Argentina's postdictatorship theatre, documenting the ways it has registered contested approaches to transitional justice strategies, which themselves embed changing understandings of the role of individual and collective memory."--Tamara L. Underiner, author of Contemporary Theatre in Mayan Mexico: Death-Defying Acts