The Fornes Frame: Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the by Anne García-Romero
By Anne García-Romero
In The Fornes body: modern Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes, Anne García-Romero considers the paintings of 5 award-winning Latina playwrights within the early twenty-first century, supplying her distinctive viewpoint as a theatre stories pupil who's additionally a certified playwright.
The playwrights during this publication contain Pulitzer Prize–winner Quiara Alegría Hudes; Obie Award–winner Caridad Svich; Karen Zacarías, resident playwright at area degree in Washington, DC; Elaine Romero, member of the Goodman Theatre Playwrights Unit in Chicago, Illinois; and Cusi Cram, corporation member of the LAByrinth Theater corporation in manhattan City.
Using 4 key concepts—cultural multiplicity, supernatural intervention, Latina identification, and theatrical experimentation—García-Romero indicates how those playwrights extend earlier a attention of a unmarried tradition towards broader, simultaneous connections to various cultures. The playwrights additionally test with the theatrical shape as they redefine what a Latina play will be. Following Fornes’s legacy, those playwrights proceed to contest and complicate Latina theatre.
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