La voz Latina : contemporary plays and performance pieces by Latinas / edited by Elizabeth C. Ramírez and Catherine Casiano.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ramírez, Elizabeth C., 1949-

Casiano, Catherine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American drama--Hispanic American authors.

American drama.

American drama--Women authors.

Dramatists, American--21st century--Interviews.

Dramatists, American.

Hispanic American women authors--Interviews.

Hispanic American women authors.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

x, 365 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]

Summary:

Surveying the Latina theatre movement in the United States since the 1980s, La Voz Latina brings together contemporary plays and performance pieces by innovative Latina playwrights. This rich collection of varying styles, forms, themes, and genres includes work by Yareli Arizmendi, Josefina Báez, The Colorado Sisters, Migdalia Cruz, Evelina Fernández, Cherríe Moraga, Carmen Peláez, Carmen Rivera, Celia H. Rodríguez, Diane Rodriguez, and Milcha Sanchez-Scott, as well as commentary by Kathy Perkins and Caridad Svich on the present state of Latinas in theatre roles.

La Voz Latina expands the field of Latina theatre while situating it in the larger spectrum of American stage and performance studies. In highlighting the ethnic and cultural roots of the performance artists, Elizabeth C. Ramírez and Catherine Casiano provide historical context as well as a short biography, production history, and artistic statement from each playwright. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : Latinas take the stage

Creating a performance voice : themes of family, religion, and community. Milcha Sanchez-Scott's Roosters

Cherríe L. Moraga's Waiting for da God

Chicanas and Chicano teatro : staging identity. Diana Rodríguez's The path to divadom or how to make fat tamales in G minor

Yareli Arizmendi's Who buys your shoes?

La indigena/the indigenous : staging myth. Celia H. Rodríguez's Cositas quebradas : performance codex

The Colorado sisters' Chicomoztoc : Mimixcoa-Cloud Serpent

"Race matters". Josefina Báez's Dominicanish

Evelina Fernández's Luminarias

Where is home and how do we get there? Carmen Peláez's My Cuba and El postre de estrada palma

Carmen Rivera's La gringa

Migdalia Cruz's Another part of the house

Commentary on Latina theater in the United States. Contributions by women of color / Kathy Perkins

No passport : dreaming the Americas / Caridad Svich.

ISBN:

9780252036224

0252036220

OCLC:

670480133