El rastro de Elena Garro: Una mirada feminista

Abstract

Elena Garro maps out roles, fears, and expectations so the reader or audience of her play can empathize with the characters’ psychological and deeply rooted cultural conflicts. A Greek style chorus portrays a version of macho identity motivating and polarizing the main character to display his idealization of his mother that changes to guilt from his hate and destructive misogyny. Integrated common cultural stereotypes and extremes of traditional roles create a magnified and clearer view of their impact on our lives. Garro’s insightful use of metaphor and tragedy holds both a dynamic appeal for cultural and social change and an implicit challenge for the reader and audience to resolve the dysfunction psychologically. (PRL, in Spanish