Tatinge Nascimento Co-Edits Theater Volume on Brazilian Dramaturgy

Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento, associate professor of theater, is the guest co-editor of Theater, Volume 45, Number 2, published in 2015. The topic is Brazilian contemporary dramaturgy. The volume contains four Brazilian contemporary plays, translated by Elizabeth Jackson, visiting assistant professor of Portuguese at Wesleyan, accompanied by four introductory essays. 

The volume, edited by Yale University and published by Duke University Press, is the first collection of Brazilian plays published in the United States since 1988.

In addition, Tatinge Nascimento is the author of an essay titled “Subversive Cannibals: Notes on Contemporary Theater in Brazil, the Other Latin America” published in the same Theater edition, pages 5-21.

In this article, Tatinge Nascimento discusses Brazilian contemporary theater with a focus on the works of playwrights Dib Carneiro Neto, Newton Moreno, Jô Bilac and Diogo Liberano. She provides an introduction to the country’s current cultural and political climate, the influence of Oswald de Andrade’s “Cannibalist Manifesto” on contemporary Brazilian artists, and how the English-speaking world’s relative ignorance of this country positions it as the “other Latin America.”