The Fornes Frame by Anne Garcia-Romero
A key way to view Latina plays today is through the foundational frame of playwright and teacher Maria Irene Fornes, who has trained a generation of theatre artists and transformed the field of American theatre. 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.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.
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.
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780816531448 |
| ISBN 10 | 0816531447 |
| Title | The Fornes Frame |
| Author | Anne Garcia-Romero |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
| Year published | 2016-03-24 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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