Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-264) and index.
Contents:
Index. Jimena Ortuzar -- Acknowledgements -- Latina/oCanadian theatre and performance : hemispheric perspectives / Natalie Alvarez -- Martha Chaves's "staying alive" narrative : comedy, migration and feminism / Alicia Arrizón -- Aluna Theatre's Nohayquiensepa : the intermedial intercultural and the limits of empathy / Jessica Riley and Ric Knowles -- "Living between two or more cultures" : on the political interventions of PUENTE's community-engaged theatre / Tamara Underiner -- Houses of corn and full inclusion : on Latina/o community-based theatre in Toronto / Jeannine M. Pitas -- The bilingual performance theatre of Alberto Kurapel / Hugh Hazelton -- Moving from realism to hip-hop real : transnational aesthetics in Canadian Latina/o performance / Ramón H. Rivera-Servera -- From abyssal thinking to loving imagination in The terrible but incomplete journals of John D by Guillermo Verdecchia / Martha Nandorfy -- Hasta la victoria siempre! : the persistent memory of revolutionary politics in the plays of Carmen Aguirre / Guillermo Verdecchia -- Restaging, reframing, remembering : the role of collective memory in Guillermo Verdecchia's Fronteras americanas / Pablo Ramirez -- Performing imaginary homelands / Jimena Ortuzar -- Works cited -- Notes on contributors -- Index.
Summary:
"Featuring exciting and provocative new essays by leading and emerging scholars in Canada and the US, this foundational collection begins a conversation about Latina/o theatre and performance in Canada. The essays query the contours and characteristics of latinidad in Canada's performance spaces within a complex network of hemispheric relations and transnational migrations. While the discipline has witnessed a "hemispheric turn" in the study of theatre and performance in the Americas, Canada has had limited inclusion in this body of scholarship. In their examinations of the groundbreaking work of companies and artists such as Alberto Kurapel, Guillermo Verdecchia, Carmen Aguirre, Aluna Theatre, and PUENTE Theatre, these essays invite us to think more inclusively about the hemisphere and the plurality of the Americas that lie beyond US borders." -- Publisher website.
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