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

• Autore: Rossini Jon D. <1971->
• Pubblicazione: Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Disciplina: 812/.609928708968
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Contemporary Latina
• ISBN: 1-299-45462-3; 0-8093-8702-6; 1-4356-6357-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777710403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Theater in the Americas.