Perspectives on Contemporary Spanish American Theatre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perspectives on Contemporary Spanish American Theatre write by Frank N. Dauster. This book was released on 1996. Perspectives on Contemporary Spanish American Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In this collection, nine specialists in Spanish American theatre examine social and aesthetic issues reflected in today's vital drama." "The essays in this volume reflect a pattern of interests rapidly becoming dominant among scholars. Several of them deal with questions of genre or focus on metatheatre and parody, theatrical techniques widespread in Latin America. The majority treat these topics in conjunction with their social context. Dominant themes include the question of whether there can be culture-specific genres, incorporating the extremely varied ethnic and cultural strands of the Spanish American social fabric, or the use (and reinterpretation) of tragic and comic structures and classical myths to express social marginality or demythologize received history. A number of essays focus on the problematic situation of women in Spanish American society and their struggle to achieve equality in a highly traditional culture. At the same time the authors examine the role of women in the theatre, both as protagonists and as creative artists, and their struggle to gain acceptance of nontraditional roles and lifestyles."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Crosscurrents
Crosscurrents - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crosscurrents write by Mindy Badía. This book was released on 2006. Crosscurrents available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The term "crosscurrents" seems especially fitting for a volume of essays that explores the cultural exchanges that resulted from the encounter between Spain and the New World. The nautical metaphor alludes to the actual crossing of ships that occurred during the discovery, conquest, and colonization of the Americas by the Spanish as it emphasizes the changes that occurred at these cultural intersections.
Tragedy and Contemporary Spanish American Theatre
Tragedy and Contemporary Spanish American Theatre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tragedy and Contemporary Spanish American Theatre write by Bonnie Hildebrand Reynolds. This book was released on 1979. Tragedy and Contemporary Spanish American Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Violent Acts
Violent Acts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Violent Acts write by Severino João Medeiros Albuquerque. This book was released on 1991. Violent Acts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Albuquerque analyzes the use of violence in Latin American theatre from the 1950s through the 1980s. He argues that in the face of repression and torture, some playwrights counter victimization with art as urgent as street confrontation. A study from both Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Theatre of Sabina Berman
The Theatre of Sabina Berman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Theatre of Sabina Berman write by . This book was released on . The Theatre of Sabina Berman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Theatre of Sabina Berman: The Agony of Ecstasy and Other Plays introduces and makes accessible to an English-speaking audience the work of the contemporary Mexican playwright Sabina Berman. The book contains translations of the four plays that established Berman's career: The Agony of Ecstasy, Yankee, Puzzle, and Heresy. An introduction by Adam Versényi provides a critical assessment of each play, a discussion of the specific problems of translation involved, and placement of Berman's work in the larger Mexican and Latin American context. It is evident that Sabina Berman's theatrical acumen matches the depth of her dramatic design whether it is the sheer variety of techniques from song to staged tableau that appear in The Agony of Ecstasy; the physicalization of what it means to be interrogated and to interrogate in Yankee; the final enigmatic image of a soldier alone on stage, silently aiming his firearm at an undefined threat that potentially emanates from the audience in Puzzle; or the manner in which the family narrates its own "heretical" actions in Heresy. It is the combination of theatrical technique with universal themes of self-definition that cuts across cultures and ultimately makes these plays translatable.
