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 Alcide s Nogueira, can be considered representatives of new dramatic tendencies in tended to establish Brazil within world history. Using the critical analyse s 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 the y seem to be similar to the Western contemporaries in using non-linear dram aturgies and intertextual strategies, the Brazilian authors are looking for the proper aesthetics, thus foregrounding their non-historical, non-Christ ian and non-western roots and ways of thinking.