Foundational Argentine fictions at contemporary theater of Buenos Aires

Abstract

During the nineteenth century, argentine literature configured some fictions that were constituted in the literary paradigm for the foundation of knowledge and speeches that proclaimed the foundations of our political and cultural identity. Intellectuals such as Hilario Ascasubi, Esteban Echeverria, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, José Hernández, Eduardo Gutiérrez, among many others, delineated the nineteenth-century literary map and proposed discourses that circulated not only in the context from which they emerged but also became extensive to the two centuries that they followed him, but not only in the literary field, but also in the theatrical, the cinematographic, the musical and the dance. Considering this productivity, we are interested in analyzing in this article the way in which contemporary Argentine theater appropriates, from intermediality keys, those foundational fictions in order to create new discourses and question certain paradigms related to political and cultural identity of contemporary Argentina. For this, we will focus on the analysis of: Bufarra. Roast meat (2016-2018) by Eugenio Soto, Things as if never (2018), by Beatriz Catani and The extraordinary life by Mariano Tenconi Blanco.