In this essay I approach La noche de los asesinos from a psychoanalytic perspective to assert that this play was forged as dream using allegories and symbols that have a strong presence in José Triana’s dramatic production such as La... more
In this essay I approach La noche de los asesinos from a psychoanalytic perspective to assert that this play was forged as dream using allegories and symbols that have a strong presence in José Triana’s dramatic production such as La noche de los asesinos, Medea en el espejo or El mayor general hablará de teogonía. I aim to show how Triana explores challenges to the status quo in Cuba through these rhetoric devices deployed in La noche. He does it by allowing the audience to connect the political atmosphere of revolutionary Cuba with that of a family whose sons constantly simulate their parents’ assassination. By means of these rhetoric tools I propose that Triana sets up an anti-establishment discourse, which is subversive in the eyes of the revolutionaries.
