La voz Latina
Subtitle: contemporary plays and performance pieces by Latinas
By: edited by Elizabeth C. Ramírez and Catherine Casiano
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780252036224
Subjects: Women authors; Hispanic American authors; Interviews; Hispanic American women authors; American drama; American Dramatists
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Latinas take the stage; title: Creating a performance voice : themes of family, religion, and community. Milcha Sanchez-Scott's Roosters; title: Cherríe L. Moraga's Waiting for da God; title: Chicanas and Chicano teatro : staging identity. Diana Rodríguez's The path to divadom or how to make fat tamales in G minor; title: Yareli Arizmendi's Who buys your shoes?; title: La indigena/the indigenous : staging myth. Celia H. Rodríguez's Cositas quebradas : performance codex; title: The Colorado sisters' Chicomoztoc : Mimixcoa-Cloud Serpent; title: "Race matters". Josefina Báez's Dominicanish; title: Evelina Fernández's Luminarias; title: Where is home and how do we get there? Carmen Peláez's My Cuba and El postre de estrada palma; title: Carmen Rivera's La gringa; title: Migdalia Cruz's Another part of the house; title: Commentary on Latina theater in the United States. Contributions by women of color / Kathy Perkins; title: No passport : dreaming the Americas / Caridad Svich.