Introduction : Latinas take the stage -- Creating a performance voice : themes of family, religion, and community. Milcha Sanchez-Scott's Roosters -- Cherríe L. Moraga's Waiting for da God -- Chicanas and Chicano teatro : staging identity. Diana Rodríguez's The path to divadom or how to make fat tamales in G minor -- Yareli Arizmendi's Who buys your shoes? -- La indigena/the indigenous : staging myth. Celia H. Rodríguez's Cositas quebradas : performance codex -- The Colorado sisters' Chicomoztoc : Mimixcoa-Cloud Serpent -- "Race matters". Josefina Báez's Dominicanish -- Evelina Fernández's Luminarias -- Where is home and how do we get there? Carmen Peláez's My Cuba and El postre de estrada palma -- Carmen Rivera's La gringa -- Migdalia Cruz's Another part of the house -- Commentary on Latina theater in the United States. Contributions by women of color / Kathy Perkins -- No passport : dreaming the Americas / Caridad Svich.
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