Incorporating western thought: Brazilians playwrights of the 1990s

Brazilian drama suffered a crisis during and after the dictatorship. At the beginning of the nineties two playwrights, Luis Alberto de Areu and Alcides Nogueira, can be considered representatives of new dramatic tendencies intended to establish Brazil within world history. Using the critical analyses of Brazilian thought by Villem Flusser, this article argues that the new tendencies consist of destruction of Western identity, history and culture through the incorporation of Brazilian elements. Although superficially they seem to be similar to the Western contemporaries in using non-linear dramaturgies and intertextual strategies, the Brazilian authors are looking for the proper aesthetics, thus foregrounding their non-historical, non-Christian and non-western roots and ways of thinking.