DISCURSIVE WAYS OF THE CULTURAL MEMORY: HISTORY, LEGEND AND DRAMATIC FICTIONALIZATION AT ESTECO BY FRANCISCO MATEO

Abstract

This work constitutes an advance of CIUNSa’s Project No 1408, whose fundamental object is to reveal and to explore the dramatic art of Salta since its origin up till nowadays, investigation that is descended from the same stock with others before about the history of the salteño theater although, in this case, it’s made from the perspective of comparatism.

Our study will deal in the dramatic unpublished text of Francisco Feliciano Mateo, Esteco, written in 1976, and in the discursive ways that the cultural memory of the region adopts, so that Esteco’ s legend also has been treated since narrative’s point of view: La mujer de piedra (1974), by Fernando Figueroa.

A contrastive study allows to evaluate the coincidences and divergences that are produced between both discourses, as its relations with the history and with its oral tradition.

Finally, we realize a brief reflection about Esteco’s intrinsic values as dramatic text and its relevance to make an ideological reading of sociocultural imaginary in the context of reception.