TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kelz,Robert Vincent
TI  - Competing Germanies: Nazi, antifascist, and Jewish theater in German Argentina, 1933-1965 
T2  - Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
SN  - 9781501739873
AV  - PN2451 .K45 2019
U1  - 792.098209/04 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press, Cornell University Library
KW  - Freie Deutsche Buehne in Buenos Aires
KW  - History
KW  - Deutsches Theater (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
KW  - fast
KW  - Ethnic theater
KW  - Argentina
KW  - 20th century
KW  - National socialism and theater
KW  - Jewish theater
KW  - Germans
KW  - German drama
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Théâtre ethnique
KW  - Argentine
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Nazisme et théâtre
KW  - Théâtre juif
KW  - Allemands
KW  - Théâtre allemand
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - German
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : Argentina's competing German theaters -- German Buenos Aires asunder -- Theater on the move : routes to Buenos Aires -- Staging dissidence : the Free German Stage -- Hyphenated Hitlerism : transatlantic Nazism confronts cultural hybridity -- Enduring competition : German theater in Argentina, 1946-1965
N2  - "Following World War II, German antifascists and nationalists in Buenos Aires believed theater was crucial to their highly politicized efforts at community-building, and each population devoted considerable resources to competing against its rival onstage. Competing Germanies tracks the paths of several stage actors from European theaters to Buenos Aires and explores how two of Argentina's most influential immigrant groups, German nationalists and antifascists (Jewish and non-Jewish), clashed on the city's stages. Covered widely in German- and Spanish-language media, theatrical performances articulated strident Nazi, antifascist, and Zionist platforms. Meanwhile, as their thespian representatives grappled onstage for political leverage among emigrants and Argentines, behind the curtain, conflicts simmered within partisan institutions and among theatergoers. Publicly they projected unity, but offstage nationalist, antifascist, and Zionist populations were rife with infighting on issues of political allegiance, cultural identity and, especially, integration with their Argentine hosts"--
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