ABSTRACT
This entry contextualizes renowned Puerto Rican Luis Rafael Sánchez’s plays, focusing particularly on his postmodern and neobaroque style during the mid to late twentieth century. Throughout his career, Sánchez experimented with traditional Western genres, including tragedy, farce, passion plays, and morality plays, reworking them to dramatize and embody Puerto Rican themes and affects. Discussing several of the author’s most prominent plays, the entry emphasizes the ways Sánchez’s theatre engages in transculturation through postmodernism and leverages Puerto Rican-ness to speak to questions of performativity and representation more broadly.
