Bastianes, M (2023) Negotiating cultural exchange. Federico García Lorca on the British stage from the Spanish civil war until the mid-fifties. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 43 (3). pp. 307-324. ISSN 1468-2761
Abstract
This article seeks to reconstruct and explore the initial theatrical reception of Lorca in the UK, focusing on why and how his texts entered the British theatrical ecosystem, and how they created connections among artists in and beyond Britain. This exploration of a largely ignored archive of the past also opens new gates for future theoretical reflections surrounding the complex symbolic weight of the author and his work. This, in turn, offers an insightful case study for analysing the role of theatre in forging national imaginaries and creating cultural exchange between artists of different countries in the tumultuous decades of pre and post-Second World War, a period of crisis of national/European imaginaries and realignment of global geopolitical powers that in many ways mirrors our post Brexit COVID 19 present.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0). |
Keywords: | Federico García Lorca’s theatre, Theatrical Cartography, Reception Theory, History of British theatre, cultural exchange |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2022 13:57 |
Last Modified: | 29 Oct 2024 14:14 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14682761.2022.2035120 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:182873 |