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Sexual Inversion and Modern Drama: The Decadent Modernity of José González Castillo

  • Los Invertidos
  • Speaker: Ben de Witte
  • Event Type: Graduate Student Colloquia
  • Event Date: 2013-03-11
  • Event Start Time: 6:30 PM
  • Event Location: 195 College Avenue

Banned from the stage for its "immoral" content after one week of running, Los invertidos ("The Inverts,"1914) by Argentinean playwright José González Castillo is of exceptional interest to scholarship in theater and the history of sexuality.  In this talk, Ben De Witte will explore how the play presents its concerns with sexuality and modern drama through the trope of decadence