Intimations of Precarity in Twenty-First-Century U.S. DramaFaltering Voices of the Precariat in Annie Baker’s The Flick

  1. Ana Fernández-Caparrós 1
  1. 1 Universitat de València
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    Universitat de València

    Valencia, España

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Revista:
Cultura, lenguaje y representación = Culture, language and representation: revista de estudios culturales de la Universitat Jaume I = cultural studies journal of Universitat Jaume I

ISSN: 1697-7750

Año de publicación: 2021

Número: 25

Páginas: 119-133

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.6035/CLR.2021.25.7 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Cultura, lenguaje y representación = Culture, language and representation: revista de estudios culturales de la Universitat Jaume I = cultural studies journal of Universitat Jaume I

Resumen

Mientras que la representación de la precariedad en el teatro contemporáneo europeo, y especialmente el británico, ha recibido en los últimos años una notable atención crítica, no es el caso de aquellas obras producidas en los Estados Unidos que se ocupan de la dramatización de las vidas de los miembros del llamado precariado. El siguiente artículo traza la emergencia de un creciente interés por cómo las adversidades económicas determinan los conflictos dramáticos en el teatro estadounidense de la segunda década del siglo XXIy presenta un análisis crítico de la obra The Flick, de Annie Baker (2013). La obra de Baker es representativa de una estética de la precariedad que se abstiene de victimizar a los miembros del precariado y que representa las paradojas de la precariedad como un escenario problemático pero que también puede propiciar transformaciones y nuevas visiones de posibilidad.

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1 Research for this article was cocnted adt Basuel University with the financial aid of a travel grant funded by the Program Estades cutesren altres universitats i centres dinve'stigació (2019) of the University of Valencia.

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