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A History of Latinx Performing Arts in the U.S. provides a comprehensive overview of the development of the Latinx performing arts in what now is the U.S. since the sixteenth century.
List of contents
Part I From the Spanish Frontier to the U.S. Borderlands 1 The Spanish Mission Era: Traces of a Living Culture after Three Hundred Years of Colonial Rule 2 The Mexican Period and Beyond: The Creation Generation 3 First Migrant Generation and the Establishing of the Border in the Southwest 4 Mexican Americans: The Shaping of a Community
Part II Re-Writing History: Mexican American/Chicana/o Dramaturgy 1 Chicano Renaissance: The Flourishing of a Movement 2 Chicana/o/Latinx Playwriting: The Gender Perspective 3 Playwrights as Historians: Building a Counter History
Part III Building a Border Consciousness: Identity Politics and Social Change 1 The Border as a Discursive Space 2 Representing Immigration: The Process of Un-Othering the Border Crosser 3 The "Latinx Threat": Defeating the Culture of Fear and Silence 4 Octavio Solis: The Voice of Affect in the Borderlands
About the author
Beatriz J. Rizk, PhD, is the Educational Director of the International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami, U.S., and a member of Teatro Avante. She has published numerous articles on Latinx and Latin American theatre in specialized journals in the Americas and Europe. Her books include
Imaginando un Continente: Utopía, democracia y neoliberalismo en el teatro latinoamericano, two volumes (2010).
