Six Neuvomexicano Folk Dramas for Advent Season

by Larry Torres

Book Overview

These folk plays are performed during the period before and after Christmas known as the Advent Season--from December 12 to January 6--but they can be appreciated any time during the year. Whether approached as dramas, literature, or vernacular religious expression, these works are important in New Mexico's literary and cultural heritage.

Products of late medieval Spain modified over the past 400 years in New Mexico, these dramas mix didactic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826319645
• ISBN13: 9780826319647
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 3 years and up
• Grade Range: Preschool and higher