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Of the Brazilian theater scholars now active in the US, Tatinge Nascimento comes closest to the teacher-critic-director ideal. Her After the Long Silence: The Theater of Brazil's Post-Dictatorship Generation has the merit of avoiding the trap of the traditional categories into which this type of study is usually divided. While not underestimating the challenges involved, new directions are proposed for the writing of a genuine criticism of the Brazilian performance vanguards. Drawing from an original research that looked at diverse modes of expression, including manifestoes, playbills, group archives, experimental texts, and public performances, enables the book to provide ample evidence of Tatinge Nascimento's grasp of the importance of understanding historicity in relative terms, never allowing the weight of historical events to offset the key aesthetic trends in Brazilian contemporary performance. - Severino Albuquerque, Professor Emeritus, Spanish and Portuguese Department at UW-Madison This well-written monograph deserves praise and a prominent place in university library collections and in the personal archives of scholars of Brazilian studies and Latin American theatre. - Steven F. Butterman, Latin Theatre Review Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. - CHOICE After the Long Silence is the only academic monograph published in the United States to provide a comprehensive survey of a broad period of Brazilian theatre, a significant feat. [...] Insightful not only for those who wish to better understand Brazilian theatre, but also for any reader who strives to have a more global grasp on the generation that was marked by the end of the cold war, the expansion of global neoliberalism, and the reckoning with the past. - Marcos Davi Silva Steuernagel, University of Colorado Boulder

Of the Brazilian theater scholars now active in the US, Tatinge Nascimento comes closest to the teacher-critic-director ideal. Her After the Long Silence: The Theater of Brazil's Post-Dictatorship Generation has the merit of avoiding the trap of the traditional categories into which this type of study is usually divided. While not underestimating the challenges involved, new directions are proposed for the writing of a genuine criticism of the Brazilian performance vanguards. Drawing from an original research that looked at diverse modes of expression, including manifestoes, playbills, group archives, experimental texts, and public performances, enables the book to provide ample evidence of Tatinge Nascimento's grasp of the importance of understanding historicity in relative terms, never allowing the weight of historical events to offset the key aesthetic trends in Brazilian contemporary performance. - Severino Albuquerque, Professor Emeritus, Spanish and Portuguese Department at UW-Madison This well-written monograph deserves praise and a prominent place in university library collections and in the personal archives of scholars of Brazilian studies and Latin American theatre. - Steven F. Butterman, Latin Theatre Review Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. - CHOICE

Of the Brazilian theater scholars now active in the US, Tatinge Nascimento comes closest to the teacher-critic-director ideal. Her After the Long Silence: The Theater of Brazil's Post-Dictatorship Generation has the merit of avoiding the trap of the traditional categories into which this type of study is usually divided. While not underestimating the challenges involved, new directions are proposed for the writing of a genuine criticism of the Brazilian performance vanguards. Drawing from an original research that looked at diverse modes of expression, including manifestoes, playbills, group archives, experimental texts, and public performances, enables the book to provide ample evidence of Tatinge Nascimento's grasp of the importance of understanding historicity in relative terms, never allowing the weight of historical events to offset the key aesthetic trends in Brazilian contemporary performance. - Severino Albuquerque, Professor Emeritus, Spanish and Portuguese Department at UW-Madison Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. - CHOICE

"Of the Brazilian theater scholars now active in the US, Tatinge Nascimento comes closest to the teacher-critic-director ideal. Her After the Long Silence: The Theater of Brazil’s Post-Dictatorship Generation has the merit of avoiding the trap of the traditional categories into which this type of study is usually divided. While not underestimating the challenges involved, new directions are proposed for the writing of a genuine criticism of the Brazilian performance vanguards. Drawing from an original research that looked at diverse modes of expression, including manifestoes, playbills, group archives, experimental texts, and public performances, enables the book to provide ample evidence of Tatinge Nascimento’s grasp of the importance of understanding historicity in relative terms, never allowing the weight of historical events to offset the key aesthetic trends in Brazilian contemporary performance. - Severino Albuquerque, Professor Emeritus, Spanish and Portuguese Department at UW-Madison ""This well-written monograph deserves praise and a prominent place in university library collections and in the personal archives of scholars of Brazilian studies and Latin American theatre."" - Steven F. Butterman, Latin Theatre Review ""Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals."" - CHOICE ""After the Long Silence is the only academic monograph published in the United States to provide a comprehensive survey of a broad period of Brazilian theatre, a significant feat. […] Insightful not only for those who wish to better understand Brazilian theatre, but also for any reader who strives to have a more global grasp on the generation that was marked by the end of the cold war, the expansion of global neoliberalism, and the reckoning with the past."" - Marcos Davi Silva Steuernagel, University of Colorado Boulder"

Of the Brazilian theater scholars now active in the US, Tatinge Nascimento comes closest to the teacher-critic-director ideal. Her After the Long Silence: The Theater of Brazil's Post-Dictatorship Generation has the merit of avoiding the trap of the traditional categories into which this type of study is usually divided. While not underestimating the challenges involved, new directions are proposed for the writing of a genuine criticism of the Brazilian performance vanguards. Drawing from an original research that looked at diverse modes of expression, including manifestoes, playbills, group archives, experimental texts, and public performances, enables the book to provide ample evidence of Tatinge Nascimento's grasp of the importance of understanding historicity in relative terms, never allowing the weight of historical events to offset the key aesthetic trends in Brazilian contemporary performance. -- Severino Albuquerque, Professor Emeritus, Spanish and Portuguese Department at UW-Madison

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Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento is an artist-scholar with an interest in experimental and Brazilian performance. She is a professor and chair of the Theater and Dance Department at Macalester College.

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