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Consideraciones acerca de lo artístico y lo abyecto en su impacto sobre los límites de lo expresable en la España del siglo XXI. Una mirada a través del teatro, la performance y la música.

Surribas Balduque, Mariona
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu165183743391613

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2022, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Spanish and Portuguese.
This dissertation examines theater, performance, and music in twenty-first-century Spain in order to theorize how the artistic and the mimetic have an impact on the moral, political, and legal limits of freedom of expression. I reflect on the role of activist, political, and abject stances, and argue that art and the imaginary have broadened the legal and moral limits of freedom of expression. To explain this process, I deploy the work of Julia Kristeva on the abject as a perverse violation of norms, prohibitions or laws, a transgression that the subject needs to expel in order to remain a subject. This work also incorporates theories of art and the mimetic dimension regarding the imaginary that draw from Aristotelian theater as well as from the pragmatic approach to literature. I show how activism that can be regarded as art and rests on an almost total taboo, has the potential to loosen a strong social consensus on the limits of freedom of expression. I call these manifestations “aesthetics of the maximum abject” and illuminate how they are a consequence of the Spanish historical period following the social-protest movement known as15-M, a period marked by challenges to the structures of state power and by the Catalan secessionist crisis. This research expands on studies of artistic activism and activist art that have been penalized by the courts and that have been mostly analyzed in the context of authoritarian regimes and dictatorships. Thus, the aesthetics of the maximum abject can be regarded as artistic activism in which, paradoxically, the mimetic dimension matters. It is fundamental to understand the role of art as a vehicle for sociopolitical transformations that have an impact on the limits of what can be said and which, in turn, affect one of the pillars of liberal democracies.
Ana Elena Puga (Advisor)
Ignacio Corona (Committee Member)
Dionisio Viscarri (Committee Member)
Eugenia Romero (Committee Member)
373 p.
Ethics; Language Arts; Law; Legal Studies; Literature; Music; Performing Arts; Philosophy; Theater
Freedom of Expression, art, Spain, fiction, abject art

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  • Surribas Balduque, M. (2022). Consideraciones acerca de lo artístico y lo abyecto en su impacto sobre los límites de lo expresable en la España del siglo XXI. Una mirada a través del teatro, la performance y la música. [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu165183743391613

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Surribas Balduque, Mariona. Consideraciones acerca de lo artístico y lo abyecto en su impacto sobre los límites de lo expresable en la España del siglo XXI. Una mirada a través del teatro, la performance y la música. 2022. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu165183743391613.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Surribas Balduque, Mariona. "Consideraciones acerca de lo artístico y lo abyecto en su impacto sobre los límites de lo expresable en la España del siglo XXI. Una mirada a través del teatro, la performance y la música." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu165183743391613

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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