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Fornes, author of Fefu and Her Friends and Sarita and a nine-time Obie Award winner, is known for her plays that traverse cultural, spiritual, and aesthetic borders. \u003cbr\u003e In The Fornes Frame: Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes, Anne Garcia-Romero considers the work of five award-winning Latina playwrights in the early twenty-first century, offering her unique perspective as a theatre studies scholar who is also a professional playwright. \u003cbr\u003e The playwrights in this book include Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegria Hudes; Obie Award winner Caridad Svich; Karen Zacarias, resident playwright at Arena Stage in Washington, DC; Elaine Romero, member of the Goodman Theatre Playwrights Unit in Chicago, Illinois; and Cusi Cram, company member of the LAByrinth Theater Company in New York City. \u003cbr\u003e Using four key concepts cultural multiplicity, supernatural intervention, Latina identity, and theatrical experimentation Garcia-Romero shows how these playwrights expand past a consideration of a single culture toward broader, simultaneous connections to diverse cultures. The playwrights also experiment with the theatrical form as they redefine what a Latina play can be. Following Fornes s legacy, these playwrights continue to contest and complicate Latina theatre.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50362488553745,"sku":"CIN0816531447G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0816531447.jpg?v=1763477459"},{"product_id":"paloma-book-anne-garcia-romero-9780881455595","title":"Paloma","description":"\u003cp\u003e Today and pre-1492 Spain come into collision in a twist on a Romeo \u0026amp; Juliet story (here Latina Catholic meets devout Muslim) in the highly poetic and beguiling PALOMA by Anne GarcIa-Romero.\u003cbr\u003e Ross Haarstad, Ithaca Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e At its core, PALOMA is a love story. But Paloma also touches on topics such as religious conflict, coexistence and peace. They are noble ideas presented in cleverly poetic metaphors. GarcIa-Romero defies the usual gender dynamic with a female pursuer and a reticent male, and it proves a good decision.\u003cbr\u003e Graham Gentz, New Mexico Daily Lobo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The evolving love between Ibrahim and Paloma is tender and true. Likewise, the underlying difficulties are also authentic. 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Juanita's romp soon lands her squarely at the feet of Don Juan himself as she struggles to find true love. The power of language creates worlds, realms and most importantly, relationships . that power is evident as Juanita, a young woman living in a Spanglish-speaking land, tries on a different persona in order to escape from her lover's angry father and potential shame in her community. -Elaine Noble, Nevada Today Throughout the play, 'Don Juanita' draws more and more attention to herself, attracting the love and care of a multitude of people along the way. 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Amidst the poetry of Latin American and Spanish romantics and, well, mathematical equations, a comedic marriage of the minds ensues catapulting them out of their work-a-day lives and into an unforgettable lesson in how to love. Garcia-Romero's witty, fast-paced play does give the (mismatched lovers) situation a new twist, focusing on two very individual and well-drawn characters in a particular cultural stratum that American theater hasn't handled often or well. -James Reel, Tucson Weekly Garcia-Romero has a writing style that comfortably contains the literary spirit of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges and others . The conversations in this two-person play flow back and forth in gentle shapes. Even when there is much shouting, the words never feel jagged or abrupt. Like boxers they thrust and parry, shifting from offense to defense and back again, hoping to find an advantage. -Chuck Graham, Tucson Citizen . Garcia-Romero's voice is a vibrant one that has a love of language and storytelling . there are some wonderful verbal images in this play - one, a blue bucket by a bed to catch tears, is particularly poignant. 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