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La mappa e il corpo come veicoli di memoria: una rilettura del Cartografo. Varsavia 1:400.000, di Juan Mayorga
The Map and the Body as Memory Vehicle: A Rereading of The Cartographer, by Juan Mayorga

Author(s): Enrico Di Pastena
Subject(s): History, Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Social history, Comparative Study of Literature, Fascism, Nazism and WW II, Drama
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: Contemporary Spanish Theater; Juan Mayorga; Shoah in Theater; Memory; Walter Benjamin;

Summary/Abstract: In The Cartographer, the playwright Juan Mayorga recovers for the present, and in an original and oblique way, some of the events that took place in the Warsaw ghetto in the first half of the 1940s. The piece makes explicit a parallelism between cartographic art and theatrical writing and at the same time translates it into practice through its own architecture. The map and the human body become there means of resistance to the impositions of History and vehicles of a memory that strives to save a part of the past and which allows to look at it with a renewed gaze and as an invisible part of the present.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 44
  • Page Range: 350-371
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Italian