Over Her Dead Body: Marianella Morena’s Delmira Agustini in No daré hijos, daré versos

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  • Sarah M. Misemer Texas A&M University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v43i2.4658

Abstract

No daré hijos, daré versos, by Marianella Morena, debuted in October 2014 in Montevideo during the centennial year of Delmira Agustini’s death at the hands of her ex-husband Enrique Job Reyes. It was also performed in Spain in 2016. Over Agustini’s dead body, Morena and her acting group, La Morena, develop multiple strands of meaning in differing temporalities and frameworks of power as they demonstrate an engagement with affective currents and attitudes toward both views of the body and memory through performance, space, and trauma. In the play, they create theatrical and poetic space to explore and move beyond binaries to conclude modernization’s project of sexual revolution and to finish the story of the New Woman–at least as it pertains to Uruguay’s “New Woman” as characterized by Agustini and her poetry.

Author Biography

Sarah M. Misemer, Texas A&M University

Sarah M. Misemer, associate professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies and associate director of undergraduate research in the LAUNCH office at Texas A&M University, is the author of Secular Saints: Performing Frida Kahlo, Carlos Gardel, Eva Perón, and Selena, (Tamesis, 2008), Moving Forward, Looking Back: Trains, Literature, and the Arts in the River Plate (Bucknell UP, 2010), and Theatrical Topographies: Spatial Crises in Uruguayan Theater Post-2001 (Bucknell UP, 2017). Professor Misemer has published numerous articles on contemporary River Plate, Mexican, Spanish, and Latino theater in journals such as Latin American Theatre Review, Gestos, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, South Central Review, Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Languages, Letras Peninsulares, Revista Hispánica Moderna, and Hispanic Poetry Review. Misemer is also the Editor for the Latin American Theatre Review Book series and serves on the Editorial Board for the Latin American Theatre Review journal. Her main areas of research include contemporary Uruguayan and Argentine theater, performance, and literature. She is past president of the Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica.

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2020-04-19

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