Towards a Children’s Theater without «children»
Sexual Politics and (un)becoming Heterosexual Childhood
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https://doi.org/10.24215/23142502e053Keywords:
theater, childhoods, political signifier, child, feminismsAbstract
The aim is to problematize children´s theater, as a territory for sexual political intervention, that prioritizes some economies over others. To do so, two plays, which were staged at the Centro Cultural Pasaje Dardo Rocha de La Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina) in 2019, will be analyzed. Based on critical feminist perspectives, children as spectators, will be understood as a policitcal signifier, meaning what designates the position of a subject and, at the same time, produces what constitutes the outside. According to this, there will be iterable practices, as quotations, that turn heterosexuality into a mandatory regime for childhood. Looking for the political subject, make permeable the imperatives of a heterosexual economy, setting aside from what is intelligible, those things that are excluded from children’s symbolic universe.Downloads
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