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UNINA9910777710403321 |
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Autore |
Rossini Jon D. <1971-> |
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Titolo |
Contemporary Latina/o theater [[electronic resource] ] : wrighting ethnicity / / Jon D. Rossini |
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Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-299-45462-3 |
0-8093-8702-6 |
1-4356-6357-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (271 p.) |
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Collana |
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Theater in the Americas series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-241) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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