Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 247 pages)
ISBN:
0810136473
,
9780810136472
Series Statement:
Performance Works
Content:
"Never any other time but this time no world but this world," or staging indigeneity in neoliberal times -- Havana is (not) waiting : staging the impasse in Cuban American drama about Cuba's special period -- Neoliberalism is a serial killer -- Swallowing the '80s (w)hole : millennial drama of the narcoguerra
Content:
"Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism traces how Latinx theater in the United States has engaged with the policies, procedures, and outcomes of neoliberal economics in the Americas from the 1970s to the present. Patricia A. Ybarra examines IMF interventions, NAFTA, shifts in immigration policy, the escalation of border industrialization initiatives, and austerity programs. She demonstrates how these policies have created the conditions for many of the most tumultuous events in the Americas in the last forty years, including dictatorships in the Southern Cone; the 1994 Cuban Rafter Crisis; femicides in Juárez, Mexico; the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico; and the rise of narcotrafficking as a violent and vigorous global business throughout the Americas. Latinx artists have responded to these crises by writing and developing innovative theatrical modes of representation about neoliberalism. Ybarra analyzes the work of playwrights María Irene Fornés, Cherríe Moraga, Michael John Garcés, Caridad Svich, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Victor Cazares, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, Tanya Saracho, and Octavio Solis. In addressing histories of oppression in their home countries, these playwrights have newly imagined affective political and economic ties in the Americas. They also have rethought the hallmark movements of Latin politics in the United States--cultural nationalism, third world solidarity, multiculturalism--and their many discontents."--Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0810136465
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0810136457
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0810136473
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ybarra, Patricia A., 1972- Latinx theater in the times of neoliberalism Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018
Language:
English
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