SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literature: Ariel Dorfman

»Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman (born May 6, 1942) is an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, since 1985.« -- More information: Wikipedia

La muerte y la doncella (Death and the Maiden) (Play, 1990)

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Death and the Maiden is a 1990 play by Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman. The world premiere was staged at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 9 July 1991, directed by Lindsay Posner. (...) Paulina Salas is a former political prisoner from an unnamed Latin American country who was raped by her captors, including a sadistic doctor whose face she never saw. The doctor played Schubert's String Quartet No. 14, subtitled Death and the Maiden, during the act of rape, which gives the play its title. « -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century | Geographical Index: American History: Chilean History | Types: Rape: Prison Rape; State Terrorism: Military Dictatorship of Chile; Victims: Social Status: Prisoners

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Marsh, Gabrielle. Breaking the Silence. Effects of the dictatorship on Chilean society: An Analysis of Four Works of Chilean Literature: La Muerte y La Doncella by Ariel Dorfman, Estrella Distante, and Nocturno de Chile by Roberto Bolaño, and Por favor, Rebobinar by Alberto Fuguet. M.A. Thesis, University of Otago, 2013.

[Info] Libbey, Allison J. The Telling of Trauma: Narratives of Rape on Twentieth-Century Hispanic Culture. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Virginia, 2013.

II. Speaker Index