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Dossier – Fighting Back: Contemporary Theatre in Brazil: Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2021

DODI T. B. LEAL  and
LÚCIA R. V. ROMANO
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Abstract

This text introduces our dossier on contemporary theatre in Brazil, highlighting the ways it fights back against social and political injustice.

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Dossier – Fighting Back: Contemporary Theatre in Brazil
Information
Theatre Research International , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , October 2021 , pp. 371 - 373
Copyright
Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 2021

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Notes

1 ‘Relembre o que Bolsonaro já disse sobre a pandemia, de gripezinha e país de maricas a frescura e mimimi’, Jornal Folha de São Paulo, 5 March 2021, at www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2021/03/relembre-o-que-bolsonaro-ja-disse-sobre-a-pandemia-de-gripezinha-e-pais-de-maricas-a-frescura-e-mimimi.shtml (accessed 31 May 2021).

2 Safatle, Vladimir, ‘Bem vindo ao Estado Suicidário’, Pandemia Crítica (São Paulo), 1 (2020), pp. 1–8Google Scholar.

3 In the Pajubá sociolect (transgender linguistic variant intersectional with iorubá, which has Afro-Brazilian origins), the word neca means penis, therefore necapolitics is, literally, the politics ruled by the phallus.

4 Walsh, Fintan, ‘Editorial: Scenes of Political Crisis’, Theatre Research International, 44, 3 (October 2019), pp. 227–9CrossRefGoogle Scholar, here p. 227.