| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 277 pages) |
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Reenacting politics : the theater of Griselda Gambaro / Becky Boling -- Maruxa Vilata / Sharon Magnarelli -- Playing a waiting game : the theater of Mariela Romero / Anita K. Stoll -- Power plays, plays of power : the theater of Pilar Campesino / Carla Olson Black -- The tortured magic of Hebe Serebrisky / George Woodyard -- Acting radical : the dramaturgy of Consuelo de Castro / Margo Milleret -- The theater of Diana Raznovich and Percepticide in El desconcierto / Diana Taylor -- A moveable space : the problem of Puerto Rico in Myrna Casas's theater / Vicky Unruh |
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Sabina Berman's undone threads / Ronald D. Burgess -- Social critique and theatrical power in the plays of Isidora Aguirre / Adam Versényi -- Carmen Boullosa's obligingly heretic art / Roselyn Constantino -- Leilah Assunção / Judith Bisett -- For women only? : the theater of Susan Torres Molina / Jacqueline Eyring Bixler -- Masculine space in the plays of Estela Leñero / Myra S. Gann -- Elusive dreams, shattered illusions : the theater of Elena Garro / Stacy Southerland |
| Summary |
"The book highlights the many possibilities of the innovative work of these dramatists, and this will, it is to be hoped, help the editors to achieve one of their other key goals: productions of the plays in English."--Times Literary Supplement"This thoughtfully crafted book with its insightful and informative studies elucidates an overlooked, essential component of the Latin American literary canon."--ChoiceContributors discuss 15 works of Latin-American playwrights, delineate the artistic lives of |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-266) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Latin American drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Latin American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Feminism and theater -- Latin America
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DRAMA -- Continental European.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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Feminism and theater
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Latin American drama
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Frauendrama
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Dramatikerin
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Spaans.
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Toneel.
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Vrouwelijke auteurs.
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Latin America
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Lateinamerika
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Larson, Catherine, 1950-
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Vargas, Margarita, 1956-
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| ISBN |
0253109051 |
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9780253109057 |
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