Barrio Dreams - Selected Plays

Informationen zum Autor Silviana Wood is a celebrated playwright and Chicana activist based in Tucson. She was a member of Teatro Libertad, a collective that emerged in the 1970s as part of the Chicano civil rights movement. Her plays have been performed both regionally and nationally. Norma E. Cantú is a professor of Latina/o studies at the University of Missouri and a professor emerita at the University of Texas, San Antonio. She is the author of several books, including Ofrenda: Liliana Wilson's Art of Protest and Promise. Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz is an associate professor in the Modern Languages and Literatures Department at Trinity University. She is the author of Wild Tongues: Transnational Mexican Popular Culture . Klappentext During the advent of Chicano teatro! dozens of groups sprang up across the US in Chicano/a communities. Since then! teatristas have been leading voices in the creation and production of plays touching minds and hearts that galvanize audiences to action. Barrio Dreams is the first book to collect the work of one of Arizona's foremost teatristas! playwright Silviana Wood.

Product details

• Authors: Silviana Wood, Silviana/ Cantu Wood
• Assisted by: Norma Elia Cantu (Editor), Norma Elia Cantú (Editor), Rita E Urquijo-Ruiz (Editor), Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780816532476
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-3247-6
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Camino del Sol; Camino del Sol
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Amerika, Plays / Drama, DRAMA / Women Authors, DRAMA / American / General