Resumen de Experiencia migratoria y trauma social en el teatro venezolano contemporáneo
Diasporic Venezuelan theatre has proven to be a rich soil for social criticism, offering avenues for the challenge of revolutionary discourse and its agents and shedding light on a nationalist populism that compulsively represses emigrant and dissenting subjectivities. This article explores the discursive and performative reconsideration of the notions of borders, (trans)national identities, displacement, and homelessness, as well as the expression of political resistance in three diasporic plays: Gennys Pérez's ¿Tequila o ron? (2014), Alfredo Rodríguez Guillén's Argonautas de la octava isla (2017), and Teatro en Red's Las travesías (2020). These plays showcase the emergence of hybrid identities and new pluralities of venezolanidad shaped by the migratory experience. This corpus displays the dominant thematic and aesthetic trends in the representation of displaced subjects and the confrontation of political power through the spectacularization of State violence against civil society.
