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Asignatura pendiente: Tlatelolco, el teatro y la farsa de la justicia

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October 2, 2018, marked the fiftieth commemoration of the massacre of a yet-undisclosed number of students, local residents, and other innocent bystanders in Mexico City’s Plaza de Tlatelolco. As usual,… Click to show full abstract

October 2, 2018, marked the fiftieth commemoration of the massacre of a yet-undisclosed number of students, local residents, and other innocent bystanders in Mexico City’s Plaza de Tlatelolco. As usual, the annual Memorial 68 organized by the UNAM (National Autonomous University) included several theatre productions, but this time around the plays were primarily and surprisingly farcical in nature. Although the use of a genre commonly considered derisive, irreverent, and unrealistic to commemorate such a painful and pivotal chapter in Mexican history may seem insensitive and perhaps even offensive, the presentation of five farces related to 1968 in the fall of 2018 confirms that farce is ultimately the most realistic and effective vehicle for staging the widespread perception of Mexican history as an absurd, endless cycle in which those who dare to defy or disrupt the established order are simply eliminated with impunity. Resumen El 2 de octubre de 2018 marco la quincuagesima conmemoracion de la masacre del aun desconocido numero de estudiantes, transeuntes y otros inocentes en la Plaza de las Tres Culturas de Tlatelolco. Como siempre, el programa cultural del Memorial 68 incluyo varias producciones teatrales, pero esta vez llamo la atencion el uso casi exclusivo de la farsa como modo de expresion dramatica. La farsa tiende a ser burlona, irreverente y alejada de la realidad, lo que lleva a preguntarse por que tantos dramaturgos han recurrido a este genero antiguo y poco respetado para tratar un capitulo tan doloroso y algido de la historia mexicana. Este estudio se fundamenta en la teoria de la farsa, la tragedia y la risa y en la percepcion extendida de la misma historia mexicana como una farsa. Aunque el uso de la farsa como vehiculo para una conmemoracion tan significante podria sorprender y hasta ofender, el analisis de cinco obras comprueba que la farsa es ultimamente la expresion mas realista del ciclo absurdo y sin fin de la historia mexicana, la que ha mostrado repetidamente que se puede matar con impunidad tanto a estudiantes como a todos los que se oponen al orden establecido.

Keywords: pendiente tlatelolco; historia mexicana; asignatura pendiente; que; como; farsa

Journal Title: Latin American Research Review
Year Published: 2020

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