Models of Identity and Chilean Theatre in the First Three Decades of the 20th Century

Abstract

In Chile , in spite of the diverse characteristics reflected in the succession of collective identity projects since the beginning of the 20th century to the present, there exists one notorious example of continuity: the practice of instituting official discourse that attempts to annul the Other within and without oneself, in the formation of an open, pluralistic, or truly modern nation. This practice, based on annulment or negation, or in the best scenario, on the repression of the Other, encompasses a destructive attitude toward the pre-existing, an attitude that persists at the end of the 20th century and into the 21st in a society that perceives itself as modern.