Performing Citizenship in Postdictatorship Chile

Cultural Policy and the Making of Political Dramaturgies

Jennifer Joan Thompson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2026
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4849-9 (ISBN)

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Offering a nuanced understanding of the performing arts' relationship to politics Through careful readings of key political performances in Chile's transition from military dictatorship to neoliberal democracy, Jennifer Joan Thompson examines how the production and aesthetics of theater are intertwined in processes of democratization, enactments of citizenship, and the development of cultural policy. Performing Citizenship in Postdictatorship Chile: Cultural Policy and the Making of Political Dramaturgies reveals how artists performed changing models of democratic citizenship. Thompson traces the ways artists confronted and resisted the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, how they then reimagined the body politic during the early transitional period and challenged official constructions of history and memory as the transition to democracy progressed, how they critiqued Chile's neoliberal economic model and its violence, and, finally, how they have made claims for feminist and Indigenous citizen subjectivities throughout Chile's current social crisis. Incorporating archival and ethnographic research alongside readings of theatrical and political performances, this study offers a nuanced understanding of the performing arts' relationship to politics, one that accounts for the ways artists and the state collaborate in the production of the political imagination.

Jennifer Joan Thompson is an assistant professor of theater studies at Southern Methodist University.

Introduction: Artists amp Citizens
Chapter . Dramaturgies of Resistance: CADA and Artistic Countercultures against the Dictatorship
Chapter 2. Dramaturgies of Reencounter: André s Pérez, Convivencia, and the New Body Politic
Chapter 3. Dramaturgies of Revision: Teatro de Chile's Anachronistic Reimagination of History
Chapter 4. Dramaturgies of Rebellion: Guillermo Calderón and the Paradoxes of Political Theater
Chapter 5. Dramaturgies of Revolution: KIMVN Teatro, LASTESIS, and the Solidary State
Epilogue: Dramaturgies of Defeat and Political Futures

Erscheinungsdatum	17.06.2025
Reihe/Serie	Performance Works
Zusatzinfo	25 b&w halftones
Verlagsort	Evanston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-8101-4849-8 / 0810148498
ISBN-13	978-0-8101-4849-9 / 9780810148499
Zustand	Neuware