Aqui and alla : transnational Dominican theater and performance / Camilla Stevens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevens, Camilla, author.

Series:

Latinx and Latin American profiles.

Latinx and Latin American Profiles

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Dominican Republic--History and criticism.

Theater.

Dominican Republic.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages).

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]

Summary:

Aquí and Allá: Transnational Dominican Theater and Performance explores how contemporary Dominican theater and performance artists portray a sense of collective belonging shaped by the transnational connections between the homeland and the diaspora. Through close readings of plays and performances produced in the Dominican Republic and the United States in dialogue with theories of theater and performance, migration theory, and literary, cultural, and historical studies, this book situates theater and performance in debates on Dominican history and culture and the impact of migration on the changing character of national identity from end of the twentieth century to the present. By addressing local audiences of island-based and diasporic Dominicans with stories of characters who are shaped by both places, the theatrical performances analyzed in this book operate as a democratizing force on conceptions of Dominican identity and challenge assumptions about citizenship and national belonging. Likewise, the artists' bi-national perspectives and work methods challenge the paradigms that have traditionally framed Latin(o) American theater studies.

Contents:

Introduction : Dominican migration on center stage

The drama of Yola migration and the biopolitics of disposability

Alternate belongings : Dominican male solo performance

Breaking the silence of heteronormativity in the theater of Marco Antonio Rodríguez

"Home is where theatre is" : Dominican women's stories of return migration

Borrowed identities : performing undocumented migration and rights of citizenship

The aesthetics of minor transnationalism in the theater of Frank Disla

Coda.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822987161

0822987163