Carmen Rivera: Theatre of latinidad
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Title
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Carmen Rivera: Theatre of latinidad
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:25f6913ec22b:10283
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identifier
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10266
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Creator
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Ramirez, Jason,
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Contributor
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Gloria Waldman
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Date
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2009
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Theater | Comparative literature | Ethnic studies | Carmen Rivera | La Gringa | Latinidad | Latino Theatre | Nuyorican | Repertorio Espanol
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Abstract
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This dissertation explores the "latinization" of the Latino as dramatized in the plays of OBIE Award-winning playwright, Carmen Rivera. For nineteen years, Rivera has been at the forefront of Latino/a theatre in the United States, both as a critical and artistic success. This author chooses to analyze Rivera's texts as socio-cultural documents which represent latinidad on the stage. To pursue this course of examination, latinidad will be defined and theorized in relation to the academic work of noted sociologists including Agustin Lao-Montes' ideologies of latinidad and latinization,1 Suzanne Oboler's arguments against ethnic labels in the media and representation, 2 Edward Said's theories of orientalism,3 and other socio-political and socio-economic explorations of latinidad,4 which I will use as I address Rivera's plays, not solely as dramatic texts, but rather, as living documentation of Latinos and their place in twenty-first century.;The scholarship of Arlene Davila, Jon Rossini and Juan Flores provides a landscape for analyzing the characters as post-modern reconstructions of a Latino past, building on Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez's, Jose Can You See? Latinos On and Off-Broadway.5 In-depth interviews with Rivera as well as accounts regarding playwrights and practitioners from the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, Repertorio Espanol, INTAR, and L.E.F.T. will document the impact that Rivera has had on the Latina/o theatre community and its audience base. Finally I will analyze current trends in the Latino theatre to develop a perspective on where the theatre is re-creating itself as well as positioning Carmen Rivera's role in that evolution.;1See Agustin Lao-Montes and Arlene Davila, Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001). 2See Suzanne Oboler, Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995). 3See Edward Said, Orientalism (New York: Pantheon Books, 1978). 4See Frances Aparicio and Susana Chavez-Silverman, eds. Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1997). 5See Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez's Jose, Can You See? Latinos On and Off-Broadway (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999).
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Theatre
