Games and Play in the Theater of Spanish American Women

Games and Play in the Theater of Spanish American Women
Author :
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Total Pages : 224
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0838755690
ISBN-13 : 9780838755693
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Games and Play in the Theater of Spanish American Women by : Catherine Larson

Download or read book Games and Play in the Theater of Spanish American Women written by Catherine Larson and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventeen dramatic texts examined in this study, women writers from Spanish America have self-consciously incorporated games into their plays' structures to highlight from a woman's perspective the idea that life, as well as the theatre, is a game. Some dramas are so overtly about games that the word appears significantly in their titles. Others reflect game playing in less direct ways or connect metatheatrical examinations of role-playing to the ludic. In every drama examined, however, a game of some sort plays a key role in the construction of the playtest. By looking at the nature and number of the games played in these women-authored dramas from the past fifty years, we can see the ways in which play is used to effect social control and the connections between play and aggression, gender, history and politics. In these representative dramas, the theatre serves as a vehicle for encouraging audiences to think about (if not act upon) the issues that have shaped Spanish America. Games, rules, winners and losers join together as the playwrights explore events and times of fundamental importance in the countries' historical and political evolutions.


Games and Play in the Theater of Spanish American Women Related Books

Games and Play in the Theater of Spanish American Women
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Catherine Larson
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Bucknell University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In the seventeen dramatic texts examined in this study, women writers from Spanish America have self-consciously incorporated games into their plays' structures
Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater
Language: en
Pages: 749
Authors: Richard Young
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-12-18 - Publisher: Scarecrow Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater provides users with an accessible single-volume reference tool covering Portuguese-speaking B
Latin American Women Dramatists
Language: en
Pages: 303
Authors: Catherine Larson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-05-22 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“This thoughtfully crafted . . . insightful and informative [anthology] elucidates an overlooked, essential component of the Latin American literary canon”
Trans/acting
Language: en
Pages: 267
Authors: Jacqueline Eyring Bixler
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Bucknell University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This collection offer a series of new essays authored by leading scholars of Latin American and U.S. Latino theater as well as the performance script Mextermina
Home is where the (he)art is
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Sharon Magnarelli
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Associated University Presse

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Sharon Magnarelli's contribution to the critical dialogue on Spanish-American literature offers fresh, new reading of plays that have already attracted signific