| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 253 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Theater in the Americas series
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Theater in the Americas.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-241) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American drama -- Hispanic American authors -- History and criticism.
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American drama -- Hispanic American authors. |
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American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American drama. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Hispanic Americans in literature.
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Hispanic Americans in literature. |
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Ethnicity in literature.
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Ethnicity in literature. |
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Hispanic Americans -- Ethnic identity.
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Hispanic Americans -- Ethnic identity. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rossini, Jon D., 1971- Contemporary Latina/o theater. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2008 9780809328307 0809328305 (DLC) 2007036299 (OCoLC)168722050 |
| ISBN |
9781435663572 (electronic book) |
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1435663578 (electronic book) |
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9780809328307 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0809328305 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780809387021 |
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0809387026 |
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