Perambulations : the collected works of Teatro Chicano de Laredo 2009-2012 / edited by Laurence Wensel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wensel, Laurence, editor.

Teatro Chicano de Laredo (Theater group), contributor.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

American drama--Mexican American authors.

American drama.

American drama--21st century.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Laredo (Tex.).

American drama--Mexican American authors--History and criticism.

American drama--Hispanic American authors.

American drama--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism.

Hispanic American drama (Spanish)--History and criticism.

Hispanic American drama (Spanish).

Mexican American drama (Spanish)--History and criticism.

Mexican American drama (Spanish).

Genre:

Translations

Drama.

Physical Description:

xix, 437 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Language Note:

Original mixed Spanish-English texts with English translations.

Summary:

"This critical play anthology brings together twenty-three plays by seventeen playwrights from the Frontera/Borderlands of Texas and Mexico, offering readers the first-ever critical play anthology from this geographical region. Perambulations preserves the invaluable work of the Teatro Chicano de Laredo through a compilation of comedies and dramas. Original bilingual plays are provided alongside their translation, as well as performance notes and accompanying scholarly discussion from Laurence Wensel. This collection continues the tradition of Chicano theatre, expanding upon its themes and focusing on the struggles of migration. By applying the critical lens of space, place, and non-place to each of the plays, the book explores movement, border issues, and reveals the universality of experience along the border. Grouped by location, the plays examine people, language, culture, and identity across Laredo (Texas), in-between places, imaginary spaces, land dramas, and returning home. The compilation challenges what it means to be a citizen of the Frontera/Borderlands and reveals migration to be an activity that is often undertaken without consideration. This collection provides an invaluable contribution to students and scholars of Chicano and Latinx theatre and performance, as well as those interested in theatre of the borderlands"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Traversing to Laredo, going from here to there / Laurence Wensel

Section 1.1 The interethnic plays. My little Mexican / Luis E. Flores

Spaghetti is straight...until it's hot / Kimberly Peña

Fashionably late / Raquel Valles-Sentíes

Section 1.2 Death becomes them. El novenario de Tía Mine = Aunt Minerva's nine days of mourning / Alberto Guajardo

La visita = The visit / Mary Sue Galindo

Terminal velocity / Oscar O. Peña

Section 1.3 The shape of the other. Julio's night in the dark / Armando X. Lopez

Corn nuts / Tricia Cortez

Border grammar / Dolores J. Díaz

Especial delivery from Spain / Alberto Guajardo

2. The in-between plays / Laurence Wensel

Bridges / Luis E. Flores

Nothing to declare / Raquel Valles-Sentíes

Abduction / Margie Cortez

Manila folder / Oscar O. Peña

3. The imaginary plays / Laurence Wensel

El sombrero = The hat / Carmen Gamez

La mascara de el chivo = The mask of the goat / Ramón Serrano

Breakfast tacos / Anita Guerra

4. The land plays / Laurence Wensel

El cabrito = The goat / Angel J. Zamora

Una lucha de apuesta = A betting match / Joe McCarry

El partido = The game / Luis E. Flores

Part 5. The pilgrimage plays / Laurence Wensel

Canary in the coal mine / Ramón Serrano

Tu amor secreto = Your secret love / Laurence Wensel

A que no sabes who is coming to merienda? = What? Do you not know who is coming to brunch? / Ana Laura Guajardo

Conclusion: What is home? / Laurence Wensel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version Perambulations

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781041127154

1041127154

9781041127161

1041127162

OCLC:

1548563611

Publisher Number:

CIPO000353275