Trans/acting: Latin American And Latino Performing Arts Transacting

Trans/acting : The Art Of Living In-between / Laurietz Seda -- Transformation And Transculturation In Twentieth-century Latin American Theater / George Woodyard -- Transitional Stages : Space And Illusion In Las Polacas By Patricia Suárez / Sharon Magnarelli -- Transgressing Spaces : Within, Without, And Beyond The Stage And Uruguay In Gabriel Peveroni's Theater / Sarah M. Misemer -- The Politics Of Tradaptation In The Theater Of Sabina Berman / Jacqueline Bixler -- Theater Transformations : Reading Race In Abelardo Estorino's Parece Blanca / Camilla Stevens -- Transposing Professions : Vicente Leñero And The Politics Of The Press / Stuart A. Day -- Transference And Negotiation : Sabina Berman Plots Dora And Freud / Amalia Gladhart -- Transferring Terms, Translating Sin : The Search For Meaning In Rafael Spregelburd's La Estupidez / Gail A. Bulman -- Paquita La Del Barrio And Translocal Theatricality : Performing Counter(post)modernity / Gastón Alzate -- Standing In Cultural Representation : Latino Stand-up And The Original Latin Kings Of Comedy / Guillermo Irizarry -- Performing Gender In ... Y A Otra Cosa Mariposa / Becky Boling -- Dragging The Borders : Transnational Queer Identities And Citizenship In Guillermo Reyes's Deporting The Divas / William García -- Trans/acting Bodies : Guillermo Gómez-peña's Search For A Singular Plural Community / Laurietz Seda -- Mexterminator Vs. The Global Predator / Guillermo Gómez-peña. Edited By Jacqueline Bixler And Laurietz Seda. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Frontmatter Acknowledgments (page 9) Trans/Acting: The Art of Living "In-Between" (LAURIETZ SEDA, page 13) Transformation and Transculturation in Twentieth-Century Latin American Theater (GEORGE WOODYARD, page 24) Transitional Stages: Space and Illusion in Las polacas by Patricia Suárez (SHARON MAGNARELLI, page 37) Transgressing Spaces: Within, Without, and Beyond the Stage and Uruguay in Gabriel Peveroni's Theater (SARAH M. MISEMER, page 55) The Politics of Tradaptation in the Theater of Sabina Berman (JACQUELINE BIXLER, page 72) Theater Transformations: Reading Race in Abelardo Estorino's Parece blanca (CAMILLA STEVENS, page 91) Transposing Professions: Vicente Leñero and the Politics of the Press (STUART A. DAY, page 109) Transference and Negotiation: Sabina Berman Plots Dora and Freud (AMALIA GLADHART, page 125) Transferring Terms, Translating Sin: The Search for Meaning in Rafael Spregelburd's La estupidez (GAIL A. BULMAN, page 143) Paquita la del Barrio and Translocal Theatricality: Performing Counter(post)modernity (GASTÓN ALZATE, page 160) Standing in Cultural Representation: Latino Stand-Up and The Original Latin Kings of Comedy (GUILLERMO IRIZARRY, page 179) Performing Gender in . . . Y a otra cosa mariposa (BECKY BOLING, page 196) Dragging the Borders: Transnational Queer Identities and Citizenship in Guillermo Reyes's Deporting the Divas (WILLIAM GARCÍA, page 211) Trans/Acting Bodies: Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s Search for a Singular Plural Community (LAURIETZ SEDA, page 227) Mexterminator vs. The Global Predator (GUILLERMO GÓMEZ-PEÑA, page 238) Contributors (page 260) Index (page 264) Contains fourteen essays that focus on contemporary Latin American and US Latino plays and performances and challenges the meanings of genre, gender, race, cultural identity, and performance itself in the context of globalization and shifting borders.