Latin American Women Dramatists

"The book highlights the many possibilities of the innovative work of these dramatists, and this will, it is to be hoped, help the editors to achieve one of their other key goals: productions of the plays in English." -- Times Literary Supplement"This thoughtfully crafted book with its insightful and informative studies elucidates an overlooked, essential component of the Latin American literary canon." -- ChoiceContributors discuss 15 works of Latin-American playwrights, delineate the artistic lives of women dramatists of the last half of the twentieth century -- from countries as diverse as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela -- and highlight the problems inherent in writing under politically repressive governments.

Catherine Larson is an Associate professor of Spanish and Adjunct Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington. She is the author of Language and the Comedia: Theory and Practice and numerous articles on the theater of Golden Age Spain and twentieth-century Latin America, and she has co-edited Brave New Words: Studies in Spanish Golden Age Literature.Margarita Vargas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the co-translator of The House on the Beach and co-editor of Women Writing Women: An Anthology of Spanish-American Theater of the 1980s. She has also published critical essays on Mexican literature and Spanish-American theater.

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

xi

Catherine Larson

Margarita Vargas

PART I Theatrical Self-Consciousness

Reenacting Politics: The Theater of Griselda Gambaro

3

(20)

Becky Boling

Maruxa Vilalta: Una voz en el desierto

23

(18)

Sharon Magnarelli

Playing a Waiting Game: The Theater of Mariela Romero

41

(14)

Anita K. Stoll

PART II Politics

A. THE PERSONAL AS POLITICAL

Power Plays / Plays of Power: The Theater of Pilar Campesino

55

(19)

Carla Olson Buck

The Tortured Magic of Hebe Serebrisky

74

(15)

George Woodyard

Acting Radical: The Dramaturgy of Consuelo de Castro

89

(24)

Margo Milleret

B. NATIONAL POLITICS

The Theater of Diana Raznovich and Percepticide in El desconcierto

113

(13)

Diana Taylor

A Moveable Space: The Problem of Puerto Rico in Myrna Casas's Theater

126

(19)

Vicky Unruh

PART III History

Sabina Berman's Undone Threads

145

(14)

Ronald D. Burgess

Social Critique and Theatrical Power in the Plays of Isidora Aguirre

159

(22)

Adam Versenyi

PART IV Feminist Positions

Carmen Boullosa's Obligingly Heretic Art: New Challenges for Criticism

181

(21)

Roselyn Costantino

Leilah Assuncao: Marginal Women and the Female Experience

202

(13)

Judith Bissett

For Woman Only? The Theater of Susana Torres Molina

215

(19)

Jacqueline Eyring Bixler

Masculine Space in the Plays of Estela Lenero

234

(9)

Myra S. Gann

Elusive Dreams, Shattered Illusions: The Theater of Elena Garro

243

(20)

Stacy Southerland

Selected Bibliography

263

(6)

Contributors

269

(4)

Index

273

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Latin American Women Dramatists

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