Tag: Latinao

Theater in the Americas Contemporary LatinaO Theater Wrighting Ethnicity


Free Download Jon D Rossini, "Theater in the Americas: Contemporary Latina/O Theater: Wrighting Ethnicity"
English | 2014 | pages: 271 | ISBN: 0809387026, 0809328305 | PDF | 2,2 mb
In "Contemporary Latina/o Theater," Jon D. Rossini explores the complex relationship between theater and the creation of ethnicity in an unprecedented examination of six Latina/o playwrights and their Miguel Piero, Luis Valdez, Guillermo Reyes, Octavio Solis, Jos(r) Rivera, and Cherr e Moraga. Rossini exposes how these writers use the genre as a tool to reveal and transform existing preconceptions about their culture.a Through OC wrightingOCOOCothe triplicate process of writing plays, righting misconceptions about ethnic identity, and creating an entirely new way of understanding Latina/o cultureOCothese playwrights directly intervene in current conversations regarding ethnic identity, providing the tools for audiences to reexplore their previously held perspectives outside the theater.

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Made in the Margins Latinao Constructions of US Religious History (New Perspectives on Latinao Religion)


Free Download Made in the Margins: Latina/o Constructions of US Religious History (New Perspectives on Latina/o Religion) by Hjamil A. Mart
English | March 15, 2013 | ISBN: 1602581991 | 200 pages | PDF | 1.26 Mb
Though the writing of US religious history has become increasingly open to new voices, Hjamil A. Martínez-Vázquez argues that those voices have yet to challenge effectively the dominant Eurocentric historical perspective. In this first Latina/o American religious historiography, Martínez-Vázquez critiques the traditional narrative not for what it says, but for what it does not say. Made in the Margins considers the ways in which traditional historiography has favored a specific understanding of US religious history and offers a new method of constructing Latina/o histories as "subaltern." And, in so doing, Made in the Margins ably begins the necessary conversation about truly doing history from within previously marginalized communities and disciplines.

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