THEA 3331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Radical Change, Theatricality, Infant Mortality
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Performing popular rebellion, theatricality, social identity and the mask. To reconstitute the discourse of cultural difference demands not simply a change of cultural content and symbols; a replacement within the same time . Dissatisfaction with the status quo: whether is is on economic, social or cultural terms, etc. Latin revolver to revolve: connected to natural laws of cyclical movements. The overthrow of a government by those who are governed; a fundamental change in political organization, or in a government or constitution; the overthrow or renunciation of one government, and the substitution of another. A social system that denies the majorities basic forms of existence. You need a revolution with the majority on board. Reasons why people engage in revolution is because they violate: Three major revolutions of the twentieth century in the americas. Mexican revolution (1910-1940: peasant revolution, new way of looking at tenants of the lands, a lot of the social gains of the majority was to gain land.
