A great irony of the musical Evita is that it should have been anti-Peronist and pro-Communist, yet English-speaking audiences enjoyed the reflection of their own authoritarian ideology and yearning for a dictatorship. It is told through the male gaze, depicting the dangers of the (gendered) proclivity for vanity and narcissism. At the same time, the real Evita’s passionate anti-imperialism and her fiery and uncompromising rejection of the oligarchy synthesised the best of the resistance from the inside of her husband’s Juan Perón’s dictatorship.
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