The Cuban Rafter Crisis on Stage: Humanizing the Experience of Refugees in María Irene Fornés’ Manual for a Desperate Crossing

IF 0.1 N/A LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.2478/abcsj-2022-0019

Araceli González Crespán

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Abstract

Abstract The Cuban-born playwright María Irene Fornés (1930-2018) repeatedly dealt with migration in several plays throughout her long career in theater, sometimes presenting characters who were immigrants living in New York (Sarita) or resorting to correspondence between distant relatives separated in different countries (La Viuda, Letters from Cuba). Manual for a Desperate Crossing was her response to the Cuban Rafter Crisis of the mid-1990s. The article analyzes how the playwright makes use of a combination of objective and subjective strategies to counteract the dehumanizing effect of media coverage, shifting the focus to the individuals who risked their lives in the perilous crossing of the Caribbean Sea in rickety rafts from Cuba to the Florida shores. The emphasis on the transit as a theme and the mixture of instructional, technical discourses with highly stylized stage design and different audiovisual media forces us to look in a different, immersive way that generates empathy towards the refugees.

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舞台上的古巴椽子危机:María中难民经历的人性化Irene forn的《绝望的穿越手册》

古巴出生的剧作家María Irene fornsamus(1930-2018)在她漫长的戏剧生涯中，多次在几部戏剧中处理移民问题，有时表现的是生活在纽约的移民(Sarita)，或者是在不同国家分居的远亲之间的通信(La Viuda，来自古巴的信件)。《绝望穿越手册》是她对20世纪90年代中期古巴木筏危机的回应。本文分析了这位剧作家如何运用客观与主观相结合的策略来抵消媒体报道的非人性化效果，将焦点转移到那些冒着生命危险乘坐摇摇晃晃的木筏从古巴横渡加勒比海到佛罗里达海岸的个人身上。强调过境作为一个主题，将教学、技术话语与高度程式化的舞台设计和不同的视听媒体相结合，迫使我们以一种不同的、身临其境的方式来看待难民，从而产生对难民的同情。

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American, British and Canadian Studies Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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0.20

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