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The Dialogical Theatre

Dramatizations of the Conquest of Mexico and the Question of the Other

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  • © 1993

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Authors:
  1. Max Harris

    1. Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction, University of Virginia, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in Literature and Religion (SLR)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Question of Drama

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Dialogical Genres and Cultural Encounters

      • Max Harris
      Pages 3-19

    3. Aztec Maidens in Satin Gowns

      • Max Harris
      Pages 20-32

    4. A Marrano in Montezuma’s Court

      • Max Harris
      Pages 33-48

    5. Aspiring Tyrants and Theatrical Defiance

      • Max Harris
      Pages 49-62

  3. The Drama in Mexico

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. Flower Wars and Battle Plays

      • Max Harris
      Pages 65-81

    3. Hernán Cortés, Sultan of Babylon

      • Max Harris
      Pages 82-94

    4. Santiago, the Sun King

      • Max Harris
      Pages 95-107

    5. Hidden Aztecs and Absent Spaniards

      • Max Harris
      Pages 108-122

  4. The Question of the Other

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
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    2. Barbarians and Other Neighbours

      • Max Harris
      Pages 125-141

    3. Performing the Scriptures

      • Max Harris
      Pages 142-156

    4. Incarnation and Other Dialogues

      • Max Harris
      Pages 157-171

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 172-207
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In this adventurous and wide-ranging book, Harris weaves an intriguing tale of Franciscan Missionary theatre in early colonial Mexico and Indigenous dramatizations of the theme of conquest in modern Mexico. He offers fresh readings of representations of the conquest of Mexico by Dryden and Artaud and engages in a lively dialogue with Bakhtin's insistence that drama is a monological genre. Combining careful scholarship and an entertaining style, he develops his study of the theatre into a thoughtful and original meditation on the ethics of cross-cultural encounter.

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  • Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction, University of Virginia, USA

    Max Harris

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