| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 253 pages) |
| Series |
Theater in the Americas series |
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Theater in the Americas.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Writing, righting, and wrighting ethnicity -- Miguel Piñero's theatricality : fear, respect, and community -- El Pachuco : myth, theatricality, and ambivalent community -- Bandidos to badges : criminality and the genre of ethnicity -- Wrighting the borders in the 1990s -- José Rivera's aesthetics of wrighting -- Cherríe Moraga and the wrighting of community |
| Summary |
In Contemporary Latina/o Theater, Jon D. Rossini explores the complex relationship between theater and the creation of ethnicity in an unprecedented examination of six Latina/o playwrights and their works: Miguel Piñ ero, Luis Valdez, Guillermo Reyes, Octavio Solis, José Rivera, and Cherrí e Moraga. Rossini exposes how these writers use the genre as a tool to reveal and transform existing preconceptions about their culture. Through " wrighting"--The triplicate process of writing plays, righting misco |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-241) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American drama -- Hispanic American authors -- History and criticism
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American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Hispanic Americans in literature.
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Ethnicity in literature.
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Hispanic Americans -- Ethnic identity.
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DRAMA -- American.
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American drama
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American drama -- Hispanic American authors
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Ethnicity in literature
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Hispanic Americans -- Ethnic identity
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Hispanic Americans in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781435663572 |
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1435663578 |
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9780809328307 |
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0809328305 |
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9780809387021 |
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0809387026 |
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