Chicano Drama - Performance, Society and Myth

Zusammenfassung In this book! first published in 2000! Huerta explores the energy of Chicano theatre. He takes as his starting point 1979! and through informative biographies of each playwright and analyses of their plays! offers an accessible introduction to this important aspect of American theatre and culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Introduction; 1. Mythos or mitos: the roots of a Chicano mythology; 2. Mystery or miracle: bodiless heads and conversations with the dead; 3. Redemption: looking for miracles in a Man's church; 4. Rebelling against damnation: out of the closet, slowly; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Jorge Huerta, Jorge (University of California Huerta, Jorge A. Huerta, Huerta Jorge
• Assisted by: Don B. Wilmeth (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.2000
• EAN: 9780521778176
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77817-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies