Information for Foreigners: Three Plays - Softcover

Gambaro, Griselda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810110334 ISBN 13: 9780810110335

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1992

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Griselda Gambaro (born July 28, 1928) 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.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Spanish

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0810110334
• ISBN 13: 9780810110335
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 175
• Editor: Feitlowitz Marguerite