The anarchistic dramaturgy in Chile. A discourse of cultural resistance

Abstract

The anarchistic Chilean dramaturgy of the early 20th century is seen as one of the many forms of cultural resistance that the libertarian movement putted up against a closed, elitist and excluding system, intending to polemically contrast the positive and complaisant discourse of an order that established a single way of comprehension and representation of reality and which fought, concealed or suppressed all other alternative forms of vision. The strategy followed was that of symbolically disputing the spaces of significance administered by the bourgeois power, and in this connection the approach was to replicate the current means of production and media, although stating a discourse independent from the power and any form of cultural hegemony.