Shattering the Myth: Plays by Hispanic Women - 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 Shattering the Myth: Plays by Hispanic Women write by Linda Feyder. This book was released on 1992-01-01. Shattering the Myth: Plays by Hispanic Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cherr’e Moraga, Migdalia Cruz, Caridad Svich, Josefina Lopez , Edit Villarreal and Diana S‡ena are in the vanguard of contemporary Hispanic women playwrights in the United States. The voices of three generations of Hispanic women are heard in these plays as the women explore their bicultural heritage, articulating what it means to be a Hispanic woman and, in essence, shattering the myths that have been associated with that heritage. The plays of Shattering the Myth illuminate a feminine language rich with texture and character, a language that has far too long been hidden from this countryÕs cultural tapestry. Opening the anthology is an introduction by Linda Feyder which provides background on the playwrights and their works. The plays in the collection were chosen by noted playwright and novelist Denise Ch‡vez.
Contemporary Plays by Women of Color
Contemporary Plays by Women of Color - 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 Contemporary Plays by Women of Color write by Roberta Uno. This book was released on 2005-06-28. Contemporary Plays by Women of Color available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contemporary Plays by Women of Color is a ground-breaking anthology of eighteen new and recent works by African American, Asian American, Latina American and Native American playwrights. This compelling collection includes works by award-winning and well-known playwrights such as Anna Deavere Smith, Cherrie Moraga, Pearl Cleage, Marga Gomez and Spiderwoman, as well as many exciting newcomers. Contemporary Plays by Women of Color is the first anthology to display such an abundance of talent from such a wide range of today's women playwrights. The plays tackle a variety of topics - from the playful to the painful - and represent numerous different approaches to playmaking. The volume also includes: * an invaluable appendix of published plays by women of color * biographical notes on each writer * the production history of each play Contemporary Plays by Women of Color is a unique resource for practitioners, students and lovers of theatre, and an inspiring addition to any bookshelf.
The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature
The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature - 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 Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature write by Steven R. Serafin. This book was released on 2005-09-01. The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than ten years in the making, this comprehensive single-volume literary survey is for the student, scholar, and general reader. The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature represents a collaborative effort, involving 300 contributors from across the US and Canada. Composed of more than 1,100 signed biographical-critical entries, this Encyclopedia serves as both guide and companion to the study and appreciation of American literature. A special feature is the topical article, of which there are 70.
Fearless Femininity by Women in American Theatre, 1910s to 2010s
Fearless Femininity by Women in American Theatre, 1910s to 2010s - 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 Fearless Femininity by Women in American Theatre, 1910s to 2010s write by Lynne Greeley. This book was released on 2015-08-06. Fearless Femininity by Women in American Theatre, 1910s to 2010s available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this unprecedented, fascinating book which covers women in theatre from the 1910s to the 2010s, author Lynne Greeley notes that, for the purposes of this study, "feminism" is defined as the political impulse toward economic and social empowerment for females or the female-identified, a position perceived by many feminists as oppositional to ideas of femininity that they see as personally and politically constraining and that "femininity" comprises social behaviors and practices that mean as "many different things as there are women," some of which are empowering and others of which are not. This book illuminates how throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, playwrights and artists in American theatre both embodied and disrupted the feminine of their times. Through approaches as wide ranging as performing their own recipes, energizing silences, raging against war and rape, and inviting the public to inscribe their naked bodies, theatre artists have used performance as a site to insert themselves between the physicality of their female presence and the liminality of their disrupting the role of the feminine. Capturing that place of liminality, a neither-here-nor-there place that is often unsafe, where the established order is overturned by acts as banal as raising a plant, women have written and performed and disrupted their way through one hundred years of theatre history, even within the constraints of a variably rigid and usually unsympathetic social order. Creating a feminist femininity, they have reinscribed their place in the culture and provided models for their audiences to do the same. This comprehensive tome, part of the Cambria Contemporary Global Performing Arts headed by John Clum (Duke University) is an essential addition for theater studies and women's studies.
Gender on the Borderlands
Gender on the Borderlands - 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 Gender on the Borderlands write by Antonia Casta_eda. This book was released on 2007-07-01. Gender on the Borderlands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Both noted and new scholars reweave the fabric of collective, family, and individual history with a legacy of agency and activism in the borderlands in these twenty-one original selections. Contributors explore themes of homeland, sexuality, language, violence, colonialism, and political resistance within the most recent frameworks of Chicana/Chicano inquiry. Art as social critique, culture as a human right, labor activism, racial plurality, Indigenous knowledge, and strategies of decolonization all vitalize these selections edited by one of the country's most respected historians of the borderlands, Antonia Castaneda.
