Huerta takes as his starting point 1979, the year Luís Valdez's play, Zoot Suit, was produced on Broadway. Huerta looks at plays by and about Chicanas and Chicanos, as they explore through performance, the community and its identity caught between the United States and Mexico. Through informative biographies of each playwright and analyses of their plays, Huerta offers an accessible introduction to this important aspect of American theater and culture. The book contains photographs from key productions and will be invaluable to students, scholars and general theatergoers.
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"This reviewer applauds both Huerta, for bringing to the foreground new plays and playwrights [sic] who have attained success in mainstream theater production and for making these works accessible to a wide readership, and series editor Don Wilmeth (Brown), for adding this important volume to the significant and original scholarship of the cultural and social context of theater." Choice
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This is the first book since Jorge Huerta's earlier study Chicano Theater: Themes and Forms to explore the diversity and energy of Chicano theatre. Huerta takes as his starting point 1979, the year Luis Valdez's play, Zoot Suit, was produced on Broadway. Through informative biographies of each playwright and a nalyses of their plays, Huerta offers an accessible introduction to this important aspect of American theatre and culture. The book contains photographs from key productions and will be invaluable to students, scholars and general theatregoers.
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A mythos, by definition, means that a group of people, a culture, depends on myths which help them to explain the inexplicable, what some would call the supernatural. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
religious folk theatre, bodiless character, teatro members, theatre lab, indigenous gods, indigenous philosophy, theatre artists, zoot suit, bodiless head, theatre movement, theatre department Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Los Angeles, New York, Teatro Campesino, United States, San Francisco, Marta Feliz, Day of the Swallows, Estela Portillo-Trambley, Carlos Morton, Cherrie Moraga, Edit Villareal, San Diego, Arte Publico, Guillermo Reyes, San Antonio, Teatro de la Esperanza, Marta Grande, University of California, Deporting the Divas, Milcha Sanchez-Scott, Roman Catholic Church, Man of the Flesh, Maria Irene Fornes, Show You No Stinking Badges, Chicano Movement New!
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A mythos, by definition, means that a group of people, a culture, depends on myths which help them to explain the inexplicable, what some would call the supernatural. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
religious folk theatre, bodiless character, teatro members, theatre lab, indigenous gods, indigenous philosophy, theatre artists, zoot suit, bodiless head, theatre movement, theatre department Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Los Angeles, New York, Teatro Campesino, United States, San Francisco, Marta Feliz, Day of the Swallows, Estela Portillo-Trambley, Carlos Morton, Cherrie Moraga, Edit Villareal, San Diego, Arte Publico, Guillermo Reyes, San Antonio, Teatro de la Esperanza, Marta Grande, University of California, Deporting the Divas, Milcha Sanchez-Scott, Roman Catholic Church, Man of the Flesh, Maria Irene Fornes, Show You No Stinking Badges, Chicano Movement New!
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- Contemporary Chicano Theatre by Robert J. Garza on 7 pages
- Johnny Tenorio by Carlos Morton on 5 pages
- Pancho Diablo by Carlos Morton on 4 pages
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherrie Moraga on 4 pages
- Out of the Fringe by Caridad Svich on 4 pages
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- A History of Asian American Theatre (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama) by Esther Kim Lee in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Theatre, Society and the Nation: Staging American Identities (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama) by S. E. Wilmer in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Federal Theatre Project: A Case Study (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama) by Barry B. Witham in Front Matter
- Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America, 1900-1920 (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama) by Katie N. Johnson in Front Matter
- Remaking American Theater: Charles Mee, Anne Bogart and the SITI Company (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama) by Scott T. Cummings in Front Matter
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