Information for Foreigners: Three Plays / Edition 1

by Griselda Gambaro, Marguerite Feitlowitz

Overview

One of Latin America's most important and prolific writers, Griselda Gambaro has focused on the dynamics of repression, complicity, and violence--specifically, the terror of violent regimes and their devastating effects on the moral framework of society. Information for Foreigners is a drama of disappearance, an experimental work dealing with the theme of random and meaningless punishment in which the audience is led through darkened passageways to a series of nightmarish tableaux. The collection also includes The Walls and Antigona Furiosa.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810110335
Publisher:	Northwestern University Press
Publication date:	03/01/1992
Edition description:	1
Pages:	175
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

GRISELDA GAMBARO is an Argentine playwright, whose works often concern the political violence in her home country that would develop into the Dirty War. One recurring theme is the desaparecidos and the attempts to recover their bodies and memorialize them. Gambaro is Argentina's most celebrated playwright, and she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982, as well as many other prizes.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Crisis, Terror, Disappearance: The Theater of Criselda Gambaro by Marguerite Feitlowitz
The Walls
Information for Foreigners
Antígona Furiosa
Violent Displays: Griselda Gambaro and Argentina's Drama of Disappearance by Diana Taylor

Editorial Reviews

"Griselda Gambaro is, without doubt, one of the most innovative and powerful writers in the world today."
--Diana Taylor, Dartmouth College


"She is not only one of the major literary figures of contemporary Argentina but indeed of all Latin America."
--George Woodyard, University of Kansas

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