Physical desire and metaphysical love in the theatre of Federico García Lorca.
A dialectical tension between physical desire and metaphysical love lies at the heart of the theatre works of Federico García Lorca, and the deployment of queer theory’s critique of gender and identity is surprisingly effective inthis discussion of love versus desire.
Seldom is enough attention paid to the poet’s early works, and so this book offers a timely review of the ’religious tragedy’
Cristo, as well as
Mariana Pineda, uncoveringin these early offerings an explicit proposal of the supremacy of love over desire. A meditation on the fragmentary and challenging
El público yields a vivid panorama of identity in crisis, and a paradigmatic Lorcan sacrifice of self for love. The ostensibly more conventional tragedies of
Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín and
Yerma are also reassessed in terms of self-sacrifice and self-love. The study concludes with an argument for a practical re-reading of
La casa de Bernarda Alba, which emphasises how the play might be saved from po-faced realism with music, humour and drag performance.
PAUL Mc DERMID lectures in Spanish at Queen’s University Belfast.
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction
Jesus of Love: The Profane Passion and Holy Spirit of the Young Poet’s
Cristo
Mariana Pineda: Iconic Martyr to Love
The Sacrifice of Identity in
Amor de don Perlimplín con Belisa en su Jardín
El Público: Struggling with Identity
!Hijo de mi alma! – Gender Inversion and the Metaphysical Reproduction of the Self in
Yerma
Beyond the Outer Walls: Transvestite Masquerade and Transcendent Escape in
La casa de Bernada Alba
Conclusion
Index
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