Contain in itself. Body, Literature and Theater

• Main Author: Flávia Regina Marquetti
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata 2017-03-01
• Series: Estudios de Teoría Literaria
• Subjects: Teatro contemporáneo; ruptura; identidad; representación; externalización
• Online Access: http://fh.mdp.edu.ar/revistas/index.php/etl/article/view/1948

Thinking about the human body in both theater and literature universes nowadays is a challenge that must face not only a delimitation of this object in the artistic works, but, above all, the new relations established between the human being and his body. Contemporary theater and literature can be understood from fragmentation, self-reference, the use of multiple languages and, above all, from the rupture between reality and fiction. As a result, the approach to be applied should be that of the contemporary theater, which has not only revolutionized the literary concepts but has also transcended the concepts of representation, introducing, thus, new identification games between actor / character / text –which is no longer only the transfiguration of an actor in the character of a finished story, but the externalization of a concept about a being.