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Title Trans/acting : Latin American and Latino performing arts / edited by Jacqueline Bixler and Laurietz Seda
Published Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (266 pages)
Series The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory
Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Trans/acting : the art of living in-between / Laurietz Seda -- Transformation and transculturation in twentieth-century Latin American theater / George Woodyard -- Transitional stages : space and illusion in Las polacas by Patricia Suárez / Sharon Magnarelli -- Transgressing spaces : within, without, and beyond the stage and Uruguay in Gabriel Peveroni's theater / Sarah M. Misemer -- The politics of tradaptation in the theater of Sabina Berman / Jacqueline Bixler -- Theater transformations : reading race in Abelardo Estorino's Parece blanca / Camilla Stevens -- Transposing professions : Vicente Leñero and the politics of the press / Stuart A. Day -- Transference and negotiation : Sabina Berman Plots Dora and Freud / Amalia Gladhart -- Transferring terms, translating sin : the search for meaning in Rafael Spregelburd's la estupidez / Gail A. Bulman -- Paquita la del Barrio and translocal theatricality : performing counter(post)modernity / Gastón Alzate -- Standing in cultural representation : Latino stand-up and the original Latin kings of comedy / Guillermo Irizarry -- Performing gender in ... y a otra cosa mariposa / Becky Boling -- Dragging the borders : transnational queer identities and citizenship in Guillermo Reyes's Deporting the divas / William García -- Trans/acting bodies : Guillermo Gómez-Peña's search for a singular plural community / Laurietz Seda -- Mexterminator vs. the global predator / Guillermo Gómez-Peña -- Contributors -- Index
Summary "Trans/Acting: Latin American and Latino Performing Arts comprises fourteen new essays by leading scholars of Latin American and US Latino theater as well as the performance script Mexterminator vs. The Global Predator by Guillermo Gómez-Peña. The essays focus on contemporary Latin American and US Latino dramatic texts and performances. They range from a panoramic view of transculturation in twentieth-century Latin American theater to in-depth analyses of individual plays from Cuba (Abelardo Estorino), Mexico (Sabina Berman, Vicente Leñero, Paquita la del Barrio), Argentina (Rafael Spregelburd, Patricia Suárez, Susana Torres Molina), Uruguay (Gabriel Peveroni), and the US (Guillermo Reyes, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and the Original Latin Kings of Comedy). By deploying the concept of trans/acting, with its connotations of negotiation and/or exchange, in various theoretical ways the essays explore and challenge the parameters of culturation, nationalism, gender, genre, translation, and adaptation in the context of globalization, shifting borders, and new cultural paradigms. The study of contemporary theater and performance arts in this volume is complemented by trans/actor Gómez-Peña's Mexterminator vs. The Global Predator, a strikingly transgressive script that underscores the performative nature of territorial and symbolic border crossings. Exploring the transformation of Latin American theater from the local to the global and the national to the transnational, Trans/Acting will appeal to scholars of Latin American studies, performance art, and globalization." -- Amazon.com
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record; online resource viewed June 28, 2021
Subject Theater -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century
Hispanic American theater -- History -- 20th century
Latin American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
American drama -- Hispanic American authors -- History and criticism
American drama
American drama -- Hispanic American authors
Hispanic American theater
Latin American drama
Theater
Latin America
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Bixler, Jacqueline Eyring, editor.
Seda, Laurietz, editor.
Other Titles Transacting