Anomie in the Gallows: Disappearances of Dramatic Legality in “O Verdugo”, by Hilda Hilst
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https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.29.1.197-214Keywords:
dramaturgy, Brazilian theater, Hilda Hilst, critical theoryAbstract
We analyze Hilda Hilst’s play, “O verdugo”, and seek to reveal the modifications made by the author to the original models of European modern drama and epic theater. In this way, the play can be better understood from Walter Benjamin’s concept of “prophecy”. Hilda’s text, within the historical context of the Brazilian military regime, is an anticipation of the violence strategies developed by the State that would mark a collective trauma in the country historical formation. Such regime strategies have brought about legal domination with practices of torture and forced disappearance of opponents and are sedimented in the formal structure of “O verdugo”’s dramaturgy.
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