Latin American Women Dramatists:

Theater, Texts, and Theories

 

Catherine Larson and Margarita Vargas

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Contents

 

Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xi

Catherine Larson and Margarita Vargas

  
   
Part I
  
Theatrical Self-Conscious
  
Reenacting Politics: The Theater of Griselda Gambaro

3

Becky Boling

  
Maruxa Vilalta: Una voz en el desierto
23

Sharon Magnarelli

  
Playing a Waiting Game: The Theater of Mariela Romero
41

Anita K. Stoll

  
Part II
  
A. The Personal as Political
  
Power Plays, Plays of Power: The Theater of Pilar Campesino
55

Carla Olson Buck

  
The Tortured Magic of Hebe Serebrisky
74

George Woodyard

 
Acting Radical: The Dramaturgy of Consuelo de Castro
89

Margo Milleret

  
B. National Politics
  
The Theater of Diana Raznovich and Percepticide in El desconcierto
113

Diana Taylor

  
A Moveable Space: The Problem Of Puerto Rico In Myrna Casa's Theater
126

Vicky Unruh

  
Part III
  
History
  
Sabina Berman's Undone Threads
145

Ronald D. Burgess

 
Social Critique And Theatrical Power in the Plays of Isidora Aguirre

159

Adam Versényi

  
Part IV
  
Feminist Positions
  
Carmen Boullosa's Obligingly Heretic Art: New Challenges For Criticism
181

Roselyn Costantino

  
Leilah Assunção: Marginal Women and the Female Experience
202

Judith Bissett

 
For Women Only? The Theater Of Susana Torres Molina
215

Jacqueline Eyring Bixler

  
Masculine Space in the Plays of Estela Leñero
234

Myra S. Gann

 
Elusive Dreams, Shattered Illusions: The Theater Of Elena Garro
243

Stacy Southerland

  
Selected Bibliography
263
Contributors
269

Index
273