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Title

Introduction: Confronting the Challenges of the 21st Century.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-30-2022

Publication Title

Comedia Performance

Volume Number

19

Issue Number

1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5325/comeperf.19.1.0001

Abstract

f in the early part of the twenty-first century there has been a moment prone to rethink history, both History with a capital H and the more silenced intra-history [intrahistoria], one could say that it has been the period framed by the COVID-19 crisis. From the decree of the worldwide state of alarm in March 2020 to the present day, as we have all learned to cope with a “new normal” order of things, this bracket of time has been decisive in re-assessing our world. In addition to the pandemic chaos, other social and political crises occurred at the same time leaving an imprint difficult to erase. We are referring here to racial protests, the new social movements that arose in their wake, and the controversial presidential changeover in the United States. All of these events have shaken the foundations of our society, forcing us to turn inward. ...

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1

Last Page

5

Link Out URL

https://doi.org/10.5325/comeperf.19.1.0001

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