El Othello de Ostermeier: El otro-europeo
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David Eudave [1]
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[1] Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Barcelona, España
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- Localización: De fronteres i arts escèniques / coord. por Núria Santamaria, Francesc Foguet i Boreu, 2015, ISBN 978-84-943779-0-7, págs. 117-129
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
At a period in which pan-European identity traverses a critical stage of serious disagreements calling into question the political viability of its union, the advancement of far-right groups, with their anti-immigration and, largely, Islamophobic programs, may be seen as a symptom of identity consolidation: the construction of the Other as the negative or the reverse, claims to define what something is by what it is not. In Thomas Ostermeier’s staging, Othello, the «black moor», is played by a white-skinned actor, but in several scenes he is shown as a black man through openly artificial and superficial resources — turning to negative video, body painting —, making evident that his difference is a mask, an external construction. What can this white/black European/moor Othello tell us about actual xenophobia and racism in contemporary Europe?
