ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the cultural contexts of Puerto Rican diasporic, or Diasporican, drama. After establishing the importance of identity, colonial citizenship, circular migration, and the specificity of the diasporic experience, it offers a model of play analysis to engage with key themes present in the works: negotiations of power in conditions of structural and individual precarity, language play in and through bodies, and the work of the imagination in dramatic world building. It ends with a series of questions intended to facilitate active engagement with Diasporican drama in culturally specific ways.
