Una ruina habitada desde el presente: vestigios del horror, la resistencia y el duelo. A propósito de La Ilíada de Teatro de los Andes (2000)

Abstract

This paper describes and analyses Teatro de los Andes’ La Iliada (2000). This play critically interprets the recent past of the civic-military dictatorships and the neoliberal present of Bolivia and Latin America by bringing Homer’s text into this context. This is possible thanks to a complex discursive, visual, linguistic – both Quechuan and Spanish – and musical architecture – local and European traditions –, which re-elaborates numerous and varied intertexts. Once this plays presents itself as the memory of a traumatic past-present from which we must learn, the present paper examines the forms of representation of mourning and violence, as well as the resistance and mourning practices. In order to do so, we found support in Latin American Cultural Criticism and Memory Studies, and consider the social and historical period the plays discusses.