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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453998503321

Autore

Rossini Jon D. <1971->

Titolo

Contemporary Latina/o theater [[electronic resource] ] : wrighting ethnicity / / Jon D. Rossini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-299-45462-3

0-8093-8702-6

1-4356-6357-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Collana

Theater in the Americas series

Disciplina

812/.609928708968

Soggetti

American drama - Hispanic American authors - History and criticism

American drama - 20th century - History and criticism

Hispanic Americans in literature

Ethnicity in literature

Hispanic Americans - Ethnic identity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-241) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Writing, righting, and wrighting ethnicity -- Miguel Piñero's theatricality : fear, respect, and community -- El Pachuco : myth, theatricality, and ambivalent community -- Bandidos to badges : criminality and the genre of ethnicity -- Wrighting the borders in the 1990's -- Jose Rivera's aesthetics of wrighting -- Cherríe Moraga and the wrighting of community.

Sommario/riassunto

In Contemporary Latina/o Theater, Jon D. Rossini explores the complex relationship between theater and the creation of ethnicity in an unprecedented examination of six Latina/o playwrights and their works: Miguel Piñero, Luis Valdez, Guillermo Reyes, Octavio Solis, José Rivera, and Cherríe Moraga. Rossini exposes how these writers use the genre as a tool to reveal and transform existing preconceptions about their culture.  Through "wrighting"-the triplicate process of writing plays, righting misconceptions about ethnic identity, and creating an entirely new way of understanding