Postmodernism and Feminism in Mexican Theatre: Aura y las once mil vírgenes by Carmen Boullosa

• Roselyn Costantino ^[1]
  1. [1] Penn State University-Altoona
• Localización: Latin American theatre review, ISSN 0023-8813, Vol. 28, Nº. 2, 1995, págs. 55-71
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The artistic production of Mexican poet, novelist, playwright, actress, and theatre-bar owner Carmen Boullosa has been described as both feminist and postmodern. This essay discusses how Boullosa's play, Aura y las once mil vírgenes, actively participates in both debates and engages in a reformulation of the very categories and critical tools with which we approach the text and its context—that is, contemporary Mexican society in transition. Boullosa employs parody and satire in order both to represent "reality" and to question the possibility of its representation. Undermining and exposing the politics of representation, Boullosa makes the spectator aware of his or her complicity with the conventions criticized.