Family And Identity In Contemporary Cuban And Puerto Rican Drama

Author : Camilla Stevens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813027074
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family and Identity in Contemporary Cuban and Puerto Rican Drama written by Camilla Stevens and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stevens illuminates the link between the pervasive image of the family in the theater and the struggle for national and cultural identity in Cuba and Puerto Rico. By focusing on two key periods of family drama productions - the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s - she traces the historical articulation of the concepts of family and nation in the theater. Through the close readings of 16 plays, Stevens demonstrates how onstage family quarrels between husbands and wives, parents and children, and siblings allegorize divergent views of national experience and provide insight into how and by whom communities are defined, as well as how visions of national culture change over time. America and the Hispanic Caribbean to identify the role of writing in the project of constructing and defining nationhood, the place of performance in the cultural politics of representing the nation has been less rigorously investigated. Stevens's genealogy of modern Cuban and Puerto Rican drama reveals theater and performance to be a special site and activity for imagining communities.

Author : Camilla Stevens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the House to the Stage written by Camilla Stevens and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jacqueline Eyring Bixler
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 083875726X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trans/acting written by Jacqueline Eyring Bixler and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offer a series of new essays authored by leading scholars of Latin American and U.S. Latino theater as well as the performance script Mexterminator vs. The Global Predator, written by Guillermo Gomez-Pena. The fourteen essays focus on contemporary Latin American and U.S. Latino plays and performances and challenge the meanings of genre, gender, race, cultural identity, and performance itself in the context of globalization and shifting borders. The concept of trans/acting, a term that connotes negotiation and/or exchange, provides the framework for essays that include such topics as tansculturation, transnationalism, transgender, transgenre, translation, and adaptation. These individual studies of contemporary theater and performance arts are complimented by trans/actor Gomez-Pena's Mexterminator vs. The Global Predator, a striking transgressive script that underscores the performance nature of territorial and symbolic border crossings. Jacqueline Bixler is Alumni Distinguished Professor of Spanish at Virginia Tech. Laurietz Seda is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Connecticut-Storrs.

Author : F. Becker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113702710X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Theater written by F. Becker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is extraordinary diversity, depth, and complexity in the encounter between theatre, performance, and human rights. Through an examination of a rich repertoire of plays and performance practices from and about countries across six continents, the contributors open the way toward understanding the character and significance of this encounter.

Author : Sharon Magnarelli
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838757079
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home is where the (he)art is written by Sharon Magnarelli and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharon Magnarelli's contribution to the critical dialogue on Spanish-American literature offers fresh, new reading of plays that have already attracted significant critical attention as well as insightful analyses of others that have seldom been studied.

Author : B. Werth
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230114024
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre, Performance, and Memory Politics in Argentina written by B. Werth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Argentina's transition to democracy, the expression of human fragility on the stage has taken diverse forms. This book examines the intervention of theatre and performance in the memory politics surrounding Argentina's return to democracy and makes a case for performance's transformative power.

Author : Luis H. Castañeda
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443812781
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alternative Communities in Hispanic Literature and Culture written by Luis H. Castañeda and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are Hispanic alternative communities and how are they represented in literature, film, and popular music? This book studies the fictional representation of circles of artists and intellectuals, youth gangs, musical bands, packs of marginal urban dwellers, groups of immigrants, and other diverse associations that share the common trait of being small and subversive collectives, perhaps akin to secret societies plotting to take control of society. These groups usually exist within a larger and established community – typically, the nation-state – though maintaining with it complicated relations of rivalry, criticism, outright violence, and other forms of antagonism. Thus “alternative communities” represent the “other side” of official institutions, by constituting dystopias that condemn the status quo, or by building utopias that point to new social arrangements. In the Hispanic world – a broad, transatlantic space that includes Spain and Spanish America – alternative communities have existed since the 19th century, a time of nation-building for Spanish American countries, all the way to the 21st century, when hybrid, postnational, and cosmopolitan communities begin to appear. The seventeen chapters brought together in this volume, which constitutes the first systematic approach to Hispanic alternative communities, tackle this complex cultural phenomenon from diverse critical perspectives.

Author : Carrie Hamilton
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807882518
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sexual Revolutions in Cuba written by Carrie Hamilton and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sexual Revolutions in Cuba Carrie Hamilton delves into the relationship between passion and politics in revolutionary Cuba to present a comprehensive history of sexuality on the island from the triumph of the Revolution in 1959 into the twenty-first century. Drawing on an unused body of oral history interviews as well as press accounts, literary works, and other published sources, Hamilton pushes beyond official government rhetoric and explores how the wider changes initiated by the Revolution have affected the sexual lives of Cuban citizens. She foregrounds the memories and emotions of ordinary Cubans and compares these experiences with changing policies and wider social, political, and economic developments to reveal the complex dynamic between sexual desire and repression in revolutionary Cuba. Showing how revolutionary and prerevolutionary values coexist in a potent and sometimes contradictory mix, Hamilton addresses changing patterns in heterosexual relations, competing views of masculinity and femininity, same-sex relationships and homophobia, AIDS, sexual violence, interracial relationships, and sexual tourism. Hamilton's examination of sexual experiences across generations and social groups demonstrates that sexual politics have been integral to the construction of a new revolutionary Cuban society.

Author : Camilla Stevens
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987163
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aquí and Allá written by Camilla Stevens and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Louis A. Perez, Jr.
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822971003
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cuban Studies 36 written by Louis A. Perez, Jr. and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field. This volume contains articles on economics, politics, racial and gender issues, and the exodus of Cuban Jewry in the early 1960s, among others.