Contemporary Latina/o theater : wrighting ethnicity /

Contemporary Latina/o theater : wrighting ethnicity / Jon D. Rossini.

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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....

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Rossini, Jon D., 1971-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2008.
Series:Theater in the Americas.
Subjects:
American drama > Hispanic American authors > History and criticism.
American drama > 20th century > History and criticism.
Hispanic Americans in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Hispanic Americans > Ethnic identity.
American drama.
American drama > Hispanic American authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of 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.

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