Holy terrors
Subtitle: Latin American women perform
By: edited by Diana Taylor and Roselyn Costantino.
Contributors: Taylor, Diana, 1950-; Costantino, Roselyn.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
Subjects: Latin American drama -- Women authors -- Translations into English; Latin American drama -- 20th century -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English.
Description: Of contents: Diana Raznovich (Argentina) -- Griselda Gambaro (Argentina) -- Diamela Eltit (Chile) -- Denise Stoklos (Brazil) -- Astrid Hadad (Mexico) -- Jesusa Rodríguez (Mexico) -- Katia Tirado and Ema Villanueva (Mexico) -- Sabina Berman (Mexico) -- Petrona de la Cruz Cruz (Mexico) -- Teatro La Máscara (Colombia) -- Teresa Ralli (Peru) -- Rosa Luisa Márquez (Puerto Rico) -- Teresa Hernández (Puerto Rico) -- Tania Bruguera (Cuba).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Manifesto 2000 of feminine humor ; From the waist down / Shanna Lorenz; title: What is Diana Raznovich laughing at? / Diana Taylor; title: Strip / Griselda Gambaro; title: Excerpts from E. luminata : "From her forgetfulness project" and "Dress rehearsal" / Diamela Eltit; title: Diamela Eltit : performing action in dictatorial Chile / Robert Neustadt; title: Excerpts from "Essential theatre" ; CASA / Denise Stoklos; title: The gestural art of reclaiming Utopia : Denise Stoklos at play with the hysterical-historical / Leslie Damasceno; title: Lyrics to "Corazon sangrante : "Bleeding heart" and "La tequillera" ; Monologues (selections) / Astrid Hadad; title: Politics and culture in a Diva's diversion : the body of Astrid Hadad in performance / Roselyn Costantino; title: Sor Juana in jail ; Nauhatlismo : the Aztec acting method" ; The Conquest according to La malinche" ; Excerpts from Genesis, Barbie : the revenge of the devil, and Censorship : the bald rat in the garbage / Jesusa Rodríguez; title: The unsettling memories of Chilanga performance artists / Ema Villanueva and Katia Tirado; title: The agony of ecstasy / Sabina Berman; title: A desperate woman / Petrona de la Cruz Cruz; title: Eso se pasa aqui / Teresa Marrero; title: Teatro La Máscara : twenty-seven years of invisibilized theatre / Marlene Ramirez-Cancio; title: Fragments of memory / Teresa Ralli; title: Antigona : excerpts / by Jose Watanabe; title: Between theatre and performance / Rosa Luisa Márquez; title: How complex being is, or, The complex of being / Teresa Hernández; title: Teresa Hernández and the complexity of being Puerto Rican / Vivian Martínez Tabares; title: Performing greater Cuba : Tania Bruguera's burden of guilt / Jose Muñoz.