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La Figura Femenina Bajo Represión Y Violencia En El Teatro De Griselda Gambaro, Carolina Del Carmen Palacios Diazceballos
La Figura Femenina Bajo Represión Y Violencia En El Teatro De Griselda Gambaro, Carolina Del Carmen Palacios Diazceballos
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Griselda Gambaro’s work had been studied previously under the confrontation of victims and their oppressors where the oppressor’s role is played by male characters while women play the victim part. However, in Gambaro’s four monologues that were written in 1970 and 1974, just before the Argentinean military dictatorship that took place in 1976, there were no male characters.
However Gambaro’s monologues, even without male characters, illustrate the violence, repression and stark violations of human rights in an “apparently” democratic time in Argentina. This is possible because the women characters plunder their passive feminine identity by acquiring male behaviors full of …