Chicano Drama: Performance, Society and Myth

by Jorge Huerta

Book Overview

Huerta takes as his starting point 1979, the year Lu s Valdez's play, Zoot Suit, was produced on Broadway. Huerta looks at plays by and about Chicanas and Chicanos, as they explore through performance, the community and its identity caught between the United States and Mexico. Through informative biographies of each playwright and analyses of their plays, Huerta offers an accessible introduction to this important aspect of American theater and culture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521778174
• ISBN13: 9780521778176
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"