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Stages of life : transcultural performance and identity in U.S. Latina theater / Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez, Nancy Saporta Sternbach.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sandoval-Sánchez, Alberto, author.
- Sternbach, Nancy Saporta, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hispanic American drama (Spanish)--History and criticism.
- Hispanic American drama (Spanish).
- One-person shows (Performing arts)--United States.
- One-person shows (Performing arts).
- Women in the theater--United States.
- Women in the theater.
- Hispanic American theater.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- Latina theater and solo performance emerged in the 1990s as vibrant, energetic new genres found on stages from New York to Los Angeles.Many women now work in all aspects of Latina theater--often as playwrights or solo performers--with practitioners ranging from teenagers to grandmothers.
- Contents:
- Rehearsing transculturation : a theory for U.S. Latina theater and solo performance
- Setting the stage : un teatro de mujeres
- Latina theater : stages of life
- Theater matters : foundational feminist practices
- The performance of their lives : a hybrid genre for transcultural identities
- From molcajete to microwave : agency and empowerment in Chicana "dinner" theater
- Homing the stage : staging the discourses of home in U.S. Latina theater.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-252) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Sandoval-Sánchez, Alberto Stages of Life
- ISBN:
- 0-8165-5237-1
- OCLC:
- 1368188451
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