La fragmentación de la(s) ideología(s) y su efecto en las prácticas culturales e interpretativas de una dramaturgia comprometida: Dragún, Vianna Filho y Rovner

Abstract

From the 1950s until the 1990s, a politically engaged dramaturgy emerged, from the point of view of the left. Its main purpose was to strengthen class identity among the impoverished segments of society and to prepare them to assume the hegemonic role to which they were destined. With the decadence of Marxism thought, the "dialectic nature" of societies fell into disgrace and new sociological and esthetic interpretations brought to light not only the deep gap among the different social classes but also the domains that compose the same (cultural, political, economical, etc.). By re-reading some of the plays, from our contemporary perspective, that have been considered essential to the development of Latin American theatre, written by authors such as Osvaldo Dragún, Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Oduvaldo Vianna Filho and Eduardo Rovner, I attempt to trace the contradictions inherent in their structures related to a given class identity as well as the transition from a class-oriented ideology conflict to a generational one, opening the door to the end of the century individualism. (BJR, in Spanish)