ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance traces how manifestations of Latine self-determination in contemporary US theatre and performance practices affirm the value of Latine life in a theatrical culture that has a legacy of misrepresentation and erasure.
This collection draws on fifty interdisciplinary contributions written by some of the leading Latine theatre and performance scholars and practitioners in the United States to highlight evolving and recurring strategies of world making, activism, and resistance taken by Latine culture makers to gain political agency on and off the stage. The project reveals the continued growth of Latine theatre and performance through chapters covering but not limited to playwriting, casting practices, representation, training, wrestling with anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity, theatre for young audiences, community empowerment, and the market forces that govern the US theatre industry. This book enters conversations in performance studies, ethnic studies, American studies, and Latina/e/o/x studies by taking up performance scholar Diana Taylor’s call to consider the ways that “embodied and performed acts generate, record, and transmit knowledge.”
This collection is an essential resource for students, scholars, and theatremakers seeking to explore, understand, and advance the huge range and significance of Latine performance.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|70 pages
Latine Identities
part II|101 pages
History/Presence
chapter 12|13 pages
“Quinto Festival de Teatros Chicanos – Primer Encuentro Latinoamericano: Un Continente, Una Cultura Por Un Teatro Libre y Para la Liberación”
chapter 13|8 pages
From Latin Cigar Factory Workers/Actors to Latine Pulitzers
part III|93 pages
Communities/Next Generation
part IV|98 pages
World Making
chapter 35|11 pages
Dancing Migration
chapter 37|12 pages
El Silencio
part V|83 pages
Structures