Vidas em cena: usos de formas da biografia em dramaturgias negras contemporâneas

Abstract

This thesis analyzes a set of contemporary black dramaturgies that mobilize forms of biography for their construction. In this sense, the research that supports this thesis launches into the reading of how these dramaturgical texts appropriate biographical strategies, operating with a transition from documentary and historical material to the theatrical space. This implies a study of the way in which a representation of the biographee is produced; in addition to understanding how, in each of the dramaturgies, a chronology of the episodes that are part of the narrated life is projected, as well as an understanding of how the archive is constructed and managed. The hypothesis defended in this thesis is that, in an attempt to elaborate a biographical image of a historical personality, these dramatic texts are situated in a zone of tension, in which a series of problematizations emerge about the complex relations between the “real” and the fictional, as well as the visualization of a dispute between aesthetic desire and the militant imperative. These questions trigger, in these textualities, the possibility of a debate about how contemporary tools of composition, in the theatrical scene, of a memory of marginalized groups.