Performing Everyday Life in Argentine Popular Theater, 1890-1934

• Main Author: Garrett, Victoria Lynn (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures
• Subjects: Ethnology-Latin America.; Theater-History.; Latin America-History.; Theater.; Culture.; Latin American Culture.; Theatre History.; Latin American History.; Global/International Theatre and Performance.; Global/International Culture.

This book examines the prolific and widely-attended popular theater boom of the género chico criollo in the context of Argentina's modernization. Victoria Lynn Garrett examines how selected plays mediated the impact of economic liberalism, technological changes, new competing and contradictory...