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Social Classes in Contemporary Mexican Drama

This examination of the most popular plays of Rodolfo Usigli, Salvador Novo, and Emilio Carballido shows their concern with Mexico's social problems--especially as evidenced by their representation of contemporary social classes through characterization. Treating socio-political and sexual problems with special emphasis upon psychology, Usigli combines melodramatic reality and imagination. Psychoanalysis is also important in Novo's characterizations; his themes and characters express a social criticism which often becomes a malicious satire of Mexican life. Carballido's symbolic surrealism creates an atmosphere of fantasy, with scenic neo-realism representing everyday life, bourgeois ideas, and the Mexican psychology.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc663838
Date12 1900
CreatorsPeña, Eloy B.
ContributorsHamilton, Stanley K., Rollins, Forrest L.
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatiii, 150 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Peña, Eloy B., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights

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