{"id":2038,"date":"2021-11-11T11:48:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T10:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/joseasanchez\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:23:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:23:47","slug":"the-bodies-of-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/joseasanchez\/2021\/11\/11\/the-bodies-of-others\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bodies of Others"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Essays on Ethics and Representation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/au\/bodies-of-others-9781350250628\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Methuen  Drama &#8211; Bloomsbury, London-New York-Oxford-New Delhi-SIdney, 2022<\/a> . 240 pages. ISBN: 9781350250628.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"696\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/joseasanchez\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2021\/11\/The-Bodies-of-Others.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2039\" style=\"width:300px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/joseasanchez\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2021\/11\/The-Bodies-of-Others.png 450w, https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/joseasanchez\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2021\/11\/The-Bodies-of-Others-194x300.png 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Available in English for the first time, <em>The Bodies of Others<\/em>&nbsp;investigates, through a series of close readings of several theatrical and film productions in Europe and South America, the relationship between \u201crepresentation\u201d (including theatrical representation) and ethics (defined as an ongoing relational negotiation, as opposed to a set of universal moral laws).<br><br>The main concepts are exposed through a comparative analysis of historical processes, political actions and artistic works from different periods.&nbsp;<br><br>Thus, the dialogue between the film&nbsp;<em>La carrose d&#8217;or&nbsp;<\/em>by Jean Renoir (1952) and&nbsp;<em>Rosa Cuchillo<\/em>&nbsp;by Yuyachkani (2006) serves to address the problem of the multiple meanings of representation. The dialogue between the play&nbsp;<em>El Se\u00f1or Gal\u00edndez<\/em>&nbsp;by Eduardo Pavlovsky (1973), the performance&nbsp;<em>The Conquest of America<\/em>&nbsp;by Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis (1989) and the novel&nbsp;<em>2666&nbsp;<\/em>(2004) by Roberto Bola\u00f1o allows the concept of an &#8216;ethic of the body&#8217; to be addressed.&nbsp;<br><br>Other key concepts such as identity, care, cruelty, violence, memory and testimony are considered through investigation of work such as Angelica Liddel&#8217;s theatre pieces, Rabih Mrou\u00e9 and Lina Majdalanie&#8217;s performances, Albertina Carri, Basilio Mart\u00edn Patino and Apichatpong Weerasethakul&#8217;s films, and Mapa Teatro&#8217;s trans-disciplinary creations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reviews<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Simon Bowes. <em>Drama Research , International Journal of Drama in Education, <\/em>2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/joseasanchez\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2021\/11\/Bodies-of-Others-Drama-Research-International-Journal-of-Drama-in-Education_compressed.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Incrustado de Bodies of Others - Drama Research, International Journal of Drama in Education_compressed.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-aeda7bdb-d81a-4c88-b279-9b89a7e637aa\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/joseasanchez\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2021\/11\/Bodies-of-Others-Drama-Research-International-Journal-of-Drama-in-Education_compressed.pdf\">Bodies of Others &#8211; Drama Research, International Journal of Drama in Education_compressed<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/joseasanchez\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2021\/11\/Bodies-of-Others-Drama-Research-International-Journal-of-Drama-in-Education_compressed.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-aeda7bdb-d81a-4c88-b279-9b89a7e637aa\">Descarga<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Available in English for the first time, The Bodies of Others\u00a0investigates, through a series of close readings of several theatrical and film productions in Europe and South America, the relationship between \u201crepresentation\u201d (including theatrical representation) and ethics (defined as an ongoing relational negotiation, as opposed to a set of universal moral laws).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"featured_media":4002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,136,150],"tags":[24,33,49,50,55,75,76,96,97],"class_list":["post-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book","category-libro","category-writings","tag-body","tag-cuerpo","tag-ethics","tag-etica","tag-fiction","tag-memoria","tag-memory","tag-representacion","tag-representation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/joseasanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/joseasanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/joseasanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/joseasanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/joseasanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/joseasanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4707,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/joseasanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions\/4707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/joseasanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/joseasanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/joseasanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uclm.es\/joseasanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}