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Language and the Complex of Ideology A Socio-Cognitive Study of Warfare Discourse in Britain

Garrett, Victoria Lynn

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

New directions in Latino American cultures, Cham, Switzerland, 2018

Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland, 2018

Switzerland, Switzerland

Sep 18, 2018

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Source title: Performing Everyday Life in Argentine Popular Theater, 1890-1934 (New Directions in Latino American Cultures)

This book examines the prolific and widely-attended popular theater boom of the género chico criollo in the context of Argentina’s modernization. Victoria Lynn Garrett examines how selected plays mediated the impact of economic liberalism, technological changes, new competing and contradictory gender roles, intense labor union activity, and the foreign/nativist dichotomy. Popular theaters served as spaces for cultural agency by portraying conventional and innovative performances of daily life. This dramatic corpus was a critical mass cultural medium that allowed audiences to evaluate the dominant fictions of liberal modernity, to critique Argentina’s purportedly democratic culture, and to imagine alternative performances of everyday life in accordance with their realities. Through a fresh look at the relationship among politics, economics, popular culture, and performance in Argentina’s modernization period, the book uncovers largely overlooked articulations of popular-class identities and desires for greater inclusion that would drive social and political struggles to this day.
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Review
“Victoria Lynn Garrett’s book seeks to complicate the relationship between the workings of power and popular culture by re-examining both the textual and performative dimensions of Argentine popular theater, and its capacity (at times transgressive) to (re)constitute civil society.” (Ana C. Cara, Professor of Hispanic Studies, Oberlin College, USA)
“Garrett expertly combines perspectives on theater, history, and the masses in a way that has not been done before, to advance a nuanced analysis of the national transformation that took place in Argentina between 1880 and 1930. She excels in identifying the unique potential of plays written during this period to effect change, influence collective attitudes, and consolidate solidarity across class, social, and ethnic boundaries while at the same time recognizing the limitations of this potential.” (Brenda Werth, Associate Professor and Department Chair, World Languages and Cultures, American University, USA)
“As Angel Rama once noticed, the performance of popular culture in early twentieth century Argentina implied a dazzling spectacle of bodies and identities effortlessly traversing the realms of theater, urban experiences, a passion for narratives, political mobilization, and everyday life. This poignant development of a popular culture able to build its own tools for a critical relationship with modernity constitutes one of cultural phenomena most worth studying in modern Latin America. Victoria Garrett’s book accomplishes the rare feat of recapitulating the milestones of this cultural development while bringing its problems, actors and main-articulations under the lenses of the most up-to-date and cutting scholarship. This compelling scholarship, wherein Donna Guy’s Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires meets Angel Rama’s Los gauchipolíticos rioplantenses, not only illuminates one of the most interesting periods in Latin American history, but could also serve as a model for the study of how culture interacts with all spheres of contemporary life.” (Horacio Legrás, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Irvine, USA)
About the Author
Victoria Lynn Garrett is Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at the College of Charleston, USA, where she specializes in Performance and Visual Studies, primarily in Argentina and Mexico. She and Pablo García Loaeza are co-authors of The Improbable Conquest: Letters from the Río de la Plata, 1537-1556 . Her work has appeared in Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies , Hispania , Romance Quarterly , and other edited volumes.
Sociology
Theater
General
Anthropology
Latin America
Cultural & Social
Performing Arts
History
History & Criticism
Americas (North; Central; South; West Indies)
Social Science
Acknowledgments 6
Contents 9
Chapter 1: Performing Everyday Life 11
1.1 Popular Sectors, Popular Culture 13
1.2 Argentine Popular Theater 15
1.3 Popular Criollismo the Género Chico Criollo 17
1.4 The Criollista Imaginary in Context and in Theory 21
1.5 Sainete and Grotesco Criollo: Two Key Forms 26
1.6 Popular Culture, Performance, and Agency 29
Works Cited 39
Chapter 2: Performing Inclusion and Disillusion 44
2.1 Dystopian Liberalism 45
2.2 The New Law and Order 52
2.3 Revolutionizing the Tenement 57
2.4 Women and the Changing Times 66
Works Cited 72
Chapter 3: Embodying Modernity 74
3.1 Thwarting Modernity in Everyday Life 75
3.2 Modern Economics 80
3.3 Competition and Corrupted Dreams 84
3.4 The Grotesque Performance of Modernity 90
3.5 Resignifying Liberalism 99
Works Cited 103
Chapter 4: Modern Families and Degeneration 105
4.1 Women, the Family, and the Hygienic Utopia 106
4.2 Nativism and Female Sexuality 111
4.3 Working Women and Popular Tales of Perdition 117
4.4 Performing Gender in the Leftist Imaginary 124
Works Cited 134
Chapter 5: Sex, Desire, and Violence 137
5.1 Women and Violence 138
5.2 Masculinities in Crisis 145
5.3 Precarious Solutions 157
5.4 Resignifying Morality 160
Works Cited 164
Chapter 6: Criollos, Caudillos, and the Violent State 166
6.1 Challenging the Conservative Order 167
6.2 Precarious Gauchos and Liberal Modernity 171
6.3 Modern Democracy: Violence and Fraud 177
6.4 Performing Politics and Everyday Life 183
Works Cited 193
Chapter 7: Performing Protest 195
7.1 Dangers and Devils 196
7.2 Intercultural Politics and Performance 202
7.3 Anarchist Melodrama 209
7.4 Bridging Cultural and Generational Divides? 215
7.5 Resignifying Politics 219
Works Cited 223
Index 225

This book examines the prolific and widely-attended popular theater boom of the ge nero chico criollo in the context of Argentina's modernization. Victoria Lynn Garrett examines how selected plays mediated the impact of economic liberalism, technological changes, new competing and contradictory gender roles, intense labor union activity, and the foreign/nativist dichotomy. Popular theaters served as spaces for cultural agency by portraying conventional and innovative performances of daily life. This dramatic corpus was a critical mass cultural medium that allowed audiences to evaluate the dominant fictions of liberal modernity, to critique Argentina's purportedly democratic culture, and to imagine alternative performances of everyday life in accordance with their realities. Through a fresh look at the relationship among politics, economics, popular culture, and performance in Argentina's modernization period, the book uncovers largely overlooked articulations of popular-class identities and desires for greater inclusion that would drive social and political struggles to this day--back over.

Front Matter ....Pages i-x
Performing Everyday Life (Victoria Lynn Garrett)....Pages 1-33
Performing Inclusion and Disillusion (Victoria Lynn Garrett)....Pages 35-64
Embodying Modernity (Victoria Lynn Garrett)....Pages 65-95
Modern Families and Degeneration (Victoria Lynn Garrett)....Pages 97-128
Sex, Desire, and Violence (Victoria Lynn Garrett)....Pages 129-157
Criollos, Caudillos, and the Violent State (Victoria Lynn Garrett)....Pages 159-187
Performing Protest (Victoria Lynn Garrett)....Pages 189-218
Back Matter ....Pages 219-226

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