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Latinx Shakespeares - Staging U.S. Intracultural Theater (Hardcover)
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Latinx Shakespeares - Staging U.S. Intracultural Theater (Hardcover)
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Latinx peoples and culture have permeated Shakespearean performance
in the United States for over 75 years--a phenomenon that, until
now, has been largely overlooked as Shakespeare studies has taken a
global turn in recent years. Author Carla Della Gatta argues that
theater-makers and historians must acknowledge this presence and
influence in order to truly engage the complexity of American
Shakespeares. Latinx Shakespeares investigates the history,
dramaturgy, and language of the more than 140 Latinx-themed
Shakespearean productions in the United States since the 1960s--the
era of West Side Story. This first-ever book of Latinx
representation in the most-performed playwright's canon offers a
new methodology for reading ethnic theater looks beyond the visual
to prioritize aural signifiers such as music, accents, and the
Spanish language. The book's focus is on textual adaptations or
performances in which Shakespearean plays, stories, or characters
are made Latinx through stage techniques, aesthetics, processes for
art-making (including casting), and modes of storytelling. The case
studies range from performances at large repertory theaters to
small community theaters and from established directors to emerging
playwrights. To analyze these productions, the book draws on
interviews with practitioners, script analysis, first-hand
practitioner insight, and interdisciplinary theoretical lenses,
largely by scholars of color. Latinx Shakespeares moves toward
healing by reclaiming Shakespeare as a borrower, adapter, and
creator of language whose oeuvre has too often been mobilized in
the service of a culturally specific English-language whiteness
that cannot extricate itself from its origins within the
establishment of European/British colonialism/imperialism.
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