Habitar el umbral: Justicia y poéticas de la esperanza en la escena teatral latinoamericana
Inhabiting the Threshold: Justice and Poetics of Hope in Latin American Theatre

Summary/Abstract: This essay proposes a reading of Latin American theatrical praxis as an exercise in “now-time” (Jetztzeit). We articulate the critique of the coloniality of power (Quijano) and the ethics of liberation (Dussel) with the anti-historical thought of Rodolfo Usigli and Walter Benjamin’s theses on History, in order to show the articulation of emergency theatre and collectives in an archive that functions as a kind of emergency brake on the locomotive of progress, allowing for the revision of a theatre that makes possible hopeful reparation and reconciliation through the cosmogonic re-enchantment of reality.

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