Performing Autobiography In U.S. Latina Theater
Subtitle: Emotions That Matter (Modern American Literature (New York, N.Y.), V. 44.)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Published: December 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9780820474298
Subjects: American; General; Drama; Plays / Drama; American drama; Hispanic American authors; Hispanic American women; History and criticism; Intellectual life; Women authors; Plays
Description: "This book demonstrates the crucial significance of looking at theatrical performance for rethinking critical inquiry. Leah Garland closely analyzes the theoretical tools with which prominent theater artists - Cherrie Moraga, Carmelita Tropicana, Coco Fusco, and Nao Bustamante - challenge neocolonial parameters for self-examination. Garland shows how the self-affirmative maneuvers that these artists deploy reconceptualize the subject in literary theory."--Jacket.