Feminist Politics of Location: Staging Sexuality and Violence in the Drama of Griselda Gambaro/POLITIQUE FÉMINISTE DE L'EMPLACEMENT: LA MISE EN SCÈNE DE LA SEXUALITÉ ET DE LA VIOLENCE DANS LE DRAME DE GRISELDA GAMBARO

Abstract: The literary reputation of Griselda Gambaro and her masterpieces The Walls, Information for Foreigners, and Antigona Furiosa remain an interest in studies of modern Latin American drama. The playwright and her dramas still draw scholars' attention as they deal with political issues and disputes derived from modern Argentinean history during the military coups and the period of the Dirty War (1976-83), and the consequences-whether social, psychological, representational, and/or ethical-- that were caused by these clashes. Indeed, not only is Gambaro privileged in dramatizing subjects like violence and sexuality that capture her spectators' interests, but she is also distinguished in the way she utilizes staging in effectively dramatizing these topics. This paper aims at exploring Gambaro's techniques of staging violence and sexuality in the aforementioned plays, in the light of the feminist politics of location. In particular, the examination targets Gambaro's recruitment of a signifying code of space, along with notions of absence and presence, altogether comprising a feminist issue of location and power, as argued by major feminist critics such as Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, Elaine Showalter, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. Keywords: Griselda Gambaro; Latin American Drama; Feminism; Theater; Violence. Resume: La reputation litteraire de Griselda Gambaro et ses chefs-d'oeuvre Les Murs, Information pour les etrangers, et Antigono Furiosa restent un interet pour les etudes de theâtre moderne d'Amerique latine. Le dramaturge et ses drames attirent encore l'attention des chercheurs car ils traitent des questions politiques et des conflits issus de l'histoire argentine moderne au cours des coups d'Etat militaires et de la periode de la Guerre Sale (1976-83), et les consequences, qu'elles soit sociales, psychologiques, figuratives, et / ou ethiques - ont ete causees par ces affrontements. En effet, non seulement Gambaro a privilegie dans la dramatisation des sujets comme la violence et la sexualite qui captent les interets de ses spectateurs, mais elle se distingue aussi dans la facon dont elle utilise la mise en scene efficace de dramatiser ces sujets. Le present document vise a explorer les techniques de mise en scene de la violence et la sexualite de Gambaro dans les pieces mentionnees ci-dessus, a la lumiere de la politique feministe de l'emplacement. En particulier, l'etude se concentre sur l'utilisation d'un code symbolique de l'espace chez Gambaro, avec les notions d'absence et de presence, tout en comportant une question feministe de l'emplacement et de la puissance, comme l'a soutenue par les principaux critiques feministes, comme Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, Elaine Showalter, Gilbert Sandra et Gubar Susan. Mots-cles: Griselda Gambaro; drame d'amerique latine; feminisme; theâtre; violence The literary reputation of Griselda Gambaro and her masterpieces The Walls, Information for Foreigners, and Antigona Furiosa remain an interest in studies of modern Latin American drama.3 The playwright and her dramas still draw scholars' attention as they deal with political issues and disputes derived from modern Argentinean history during the military coups and the period of the Dirty War (1976-83), and the consequences - whether social, psychological, representational, and/or ethical- that were caused by these clashes. Indeed, not only is Gambaro privileged in dramatizing subjects like violence and sexuality that capture her spectators' interests, but she is also distinguished in the way she utilizes staging in effectively dramatizing these topics. This study aims at exploring Gambaro's techniques of staging violence and sexuality in the aforementioned plays, in the light of the feminist politics of location. In particular, the following analysis will examine Gambaro's utilization of the 'room' and other related special codes, along with notions of silence and absence, in the light of feminist issues of location and power. …

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