LATS 335(S) Contemporary U.S. Theatre and Performance: Latinos/as in the Everyday (Same as American Studies 335, Theatre 335, and Women's and Gender Studies 337)*
This course explores Latino/a theatre and performance from the 1960's to the
present. We will study Latino/a theatre and performance in its broadest U.S. articulations, from mainstream Broadway productions to grass roots community
carpas, from oppositional site-specific interventions to disembodied performance praxis in cyber space. We will pay particular attention to the intrinsic connections between social movements and popular culture in the articulation of a
counter-hegemonic Latino/a imaginary. What is the relationship between migration, memory, Aztlan, border culture, the "Spirit Republic of Puerto Rico," and
exilic and diasporic subjectivities?
Format: seminar.
Requirements: class participation, two oral presentations, one short essay (5-7
pages), one written report of a newspaper's theater review (1 page), a short research assignment on book reviews, and two critical essays (10 pages).
No prerequisites. No enrollment limit (expected: 15).