Memory or oblivion? Dealing with the present identity in relation to the ghosts of the past in Cristina Escofet’s Té de tías
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i12p52-75Keywords:
Theatre, Melancholia, Nostalgia, Argentina, DictatorshipAbstract
In Té de tías (1985), the playwright Cristina Escofet demonstrates how an aggressor and a victim manage the afflictions caused by the ghosts of their past. The first character is a young man whose wish to perpetuate the dominant position of his antecessors and to reinstate his past through a restorative nostalgia leads him to self-destruction. The second is a young woman who, as a result of a productive melancholy, is able to confront those who emotionally and sexually abused her. Thus, she is able to free herself from the victim role and re-build her identity and future. Both characters lay bare the negotiations that emerge with memory and forgetfulness during and after Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983).
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