Abstract
In Te de tias (1985), the playwright Cristina Escofet demonstrates how an aggressor and a victim manage the afflictions caused by the ghosts of their past. The first character is a young man whose wish to perpetuate the dominant position of his antecessors and to reinstate his past through a restorative nostalgia leads him to self-destruction. The second is a young woman who, as a result of a productive melancholy, is able to confront those who emotionally and sexually abused her. Thus, she is able to free herself from the victim role and re-build her identity and future. Both characters lay bare the negotiations that emerge with memory and forgetfulness during and after Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983).
Highlights
¿Memoria u Olvido?: Negociando la identidad presente con los fantasmas del pasado en Té de tías de Cristina Escofet Rocío Zalba
Palabras claves: Teatro, Melancolía, Nostalgia, Argentina, Dictadura In Té de tías (1985), the playwright Cristina Escofet demonstrates how an aggressor and a victim manage the afflictions caused by the ghosts of their past
The first character is a young man whose wish to perpetuate the dominant position of his antecessors and to reinstate his past through a restorative nostalgia leads him to self-destruction
Summary
¿Memoria u Olvido?: Negociando la identidad presente con los fantasmas del pasado en Té de tías de Cristina Escofet Rocío Zalba . En este ensayo demostraré cómo el joven se auto-destruye al querer perpetuar la posición dominante de sus progenitores y restaurar el pasado tras una nostalgia restaurativa, mientras que la joven logra liberarse de su posición de víctima tras una melancolía productiva, la cual le permite enfrentarse a los antecedentes que la dañaron y así construir una identidad y un futuro esperanzadores.
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