Las obras dramaticas de Griselda Gambaro: Poetica de la descomposicion. (Spanish text);

Abstract

The aim of the thesis is to discuss the plays of Griselda Gambaro as a diagnosis. Each play deals with the decomposition or analysis of the constitutive elements of the complex aspects of both private and social realms of reality. The dramatic works of Gambaro are considered as a single poetic project, a dramatic figure, identifiable by the type of scenic unity and dramatic situation which prevails in her texts, and they have been categorized for the purposes of analysis into two sequences: The Domestic Scene, which includes El desatino, Los siameses, Dar la vuelta, La malasangre, Del sol naciente, and The Prison, which includes Las paredes, El campo, Antigona furiosa. In different areas of reality, Gambaro's literary decomposition favours relationships whose parameters of class, role or genre set up a game of inferior-superior relationships which goes on to explore the ultimate consequences of the representation of the language of cruelty and violence. Also, she exposes the bases in which that language is rooted, proposing a dramatic figure that contains, in itself, the complementary active and attractive poles of cruelty. The dominant style in the texts is the grotesque and black humor, and through these two languages (articulated and non-articulated body languages) the diagnosis causes laughter and abhorrence. From the methodological perspective the dramatic texts are discussed at levels and units of analysis peculiar to the genre within the theoretical framework of semiotics and pragmatic of drama. Thus, a chapter is dedicated to a general examination of the concepts of the theater of cruelty, theater of absurd, the grotesque and creole grotesque, with a view to determining its effectiveness and its limitations in relation to the work of the writer. The appendix contains a complete chronology of Gambaro's publications, performances, awards, invitations and interviews. The bibliography includes beside the primary and secondary sources, general works on theory of the theater and drama, history and criticism of contemporary Latin-American Theater.