Abstract
In his article "Artaud's Journey to Mexico and His Portrayals of the Land" Tsu-Chung Su examines Artaud's visions, visualizations, descriptions, and conceptualizations of Mexico. Su argues that Artaud's writings about Mexico were his textual appropriations and cartographical remappings of the land. They embodied both the geographic wandering of his itinerary and the bodily spasms of his thought. At once geographical and psycho-physiological embodiments, they were not only texts of a questing spirit but also words of a schizophrenic mind. While tracing and mapping Artaud's deterritorialized wanderings in cultures, religions, and rituals of Mexico, Su aims to explore the interlinking relationships among Artaud's experience of revolution and esoteric rituals in Mexico, his utter disillusionment with the European culture, his Theatre of Cruelty vision, and his strong abhorrence against the electric shock treatment as well as the incarceration at the Rodez asylum.
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Su, Tsu-Chung.
"Artaud's Journey to Mexico and His Portrayals of the Land."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
14.5
(2012):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2151>
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