A mancha roxa, the Theater of Plague and the Right to Violence
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https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-2096.2023.44887Keywords:
dramaturgy, dystopia, theater of plague, violence, Plínio MarcosAbstract
Abstract: In A mancha roxa, Plínio Marcos portrays women plagued by an unnameable scourge, perceptible only in the stains of the epidermis and in the clinical symptoms. In the drama, exploited by imprisonment, the characters are condemned to extermination by illness and oblivion in the punitive apparatus. Thus, this text analyzes the extermination policies – the administered violence, the generalized phobia, the imagery of the plague –, the dystopian images of the epidemic disaster and the characters’ ways of survival. In the second part, after the composition of the theatrical fable and the extermination policies, the study explores the discourse of insubordination of the prisoners, in defense of the right to a messianic and redemptive violence.
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