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Luis Valdez--Early Works: Actos, Bernabae, and Pensamiento Serpentino
by Luis Valdez. 204 pgs.

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This collection includes one-act plays by the famous farmwork theater, El Teatro Campesino, and its director Luis Valdez; one of the first fully realized, fulllength plays by Valdez alone; and an original narrative poem by Luis Valdez.

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Contents

Preliminary Note on This Edition

Introduction

Notes on Chicano Theatre

The Actos

Actos

Preface

Las Dos Caras Del Patroncito

Quinta Temporada 1966

Los Vendidos 1967

La Conquista De Mexico (a Puppet Show)

No Saco Nada De La Escuela 1969

The Militants 1969

Huelguistas 1970

Vietnam Campesino

Soldado Razo 1971

Bernabé

Pensamiento Serpentino: A Chicano Approach to the Theatre of Reality
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Zoot Suit and Other Plays
by Luis Valdez. 216 pgs.

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This collection contains three of playwright and screenwriter Luis Valdez's most important and recognized plays. Zoot Suit, Bandido and I Don't Have to Show You No Stinking Badges. The anthology also includes an introduction by noted theater critic Dr. Jorge Huerta of the University of California-San Diego. Luis Valdez, the most recognized and celebrated Hispanic playwright of our times, is the director of the famous farm-worker theater, El Teatro Campesino.

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Acknowledgements

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Introduction

Zoot Suit

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Prologue

Act Two Prologue

Bandido! an Anti-Melodrama

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I Don't Have to Show You No Stinking Badges

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Epilogue
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Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama ("Looking for a Third Space: El Pachuco and Chicano Nationalism in Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit" begins on p. 215)
by Marc Maufort. 398 pgs.

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Staging Difference:: A Challenge to the American Melting Pot

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Cultural Pluralism and Performance

Simplifying the Native American:: Wild West Shows Exhibit the "Indian"

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The Semiotics of Difference:: Representations of Ethnicity and Nativism in Early Twentieth Century American Theatre

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Who Do You See When You Look at Me?: Black Core Values and African American Identity in Performance

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Intercultural Directing:: Revitalizing Force or Spritual Rape?

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The "Oriental" Musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein and the U.S. War in Southeast Asia

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Marginal Experience/Mainstream Vision in the Theatrical Career of Zelda [Paldi] Sears

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Confronting Shakespeare's "Political Incorrectness" in Production:: Contemporary American Audiences and the New "Problem Plays"

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The Canon of American Drama and Cultural Difference

Eugene O'Neill's First Transcultural Epic:: "Universal History" in The Fountain

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The Pathology of Resistance to Cultural Assimilation in Eugene O'Neill's Late Plays

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Both His Sons:: Arthur Miller's The Price and Jewish Assimilation

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Fluidity and Differentiation in Three Plays by Tennessee Williams:: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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Sam Shepard's Inter/National Stage

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The Devil's Advocate:: David Mamet's Oleanna and Political Correctness

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The Emergence of a New Multicultural Drama

Asian American Visibility:: Touring Fierce Racial Geographies

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New Theatrical Statements:: Asian-Western Mergers in the Early Plays of David Henry Hwang

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Looking for a Third Space:: El Pachuco and Chicano Nationalism in Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit

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The Internal Third World Voice and Postcolonial Literature:: Rent Marques's The Oxcart

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The Struggle to Affirm:: The Image of Jewish-Americans on Stage

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"Alive Still, In You":: Memory and Silence in A Shayna Maidel

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Breaking Barriers: August Wilson

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Of Angels and Transcendence:: An Analysis of Fences by August Wilson and Roosters by Milcha Sanchez-Scott

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Adrienne Kennedy's Heterotopias and the (Im) possibilities of the (Black) Female Self

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Re-Reading Alice Childress

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Sophie Treadwell and the Frontier Myth:: Western Motifs in Machinal and Hope for a Harvest

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The Search for Self:: Attachment, Loss, and Recovery in The Heidi Chronicles

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Appendices

Across the Boundaries of Cultural Identity:: An Interview with David Henry Hwang

Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama: A Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes on Contributors
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Teaching American Ethnic Literatures: Nineteen Essays ("Chicano Theater Reaches the Professional Stage: Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit" begins on p. 193)
by John R. Maitino, David R. Peck. 350 pgs.

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Introduction

Preface: Native American Literature

Indian Preservation: Teaching Black Elk Speaks

Beauty Before Me: Notes on House Made of Dawn (n. Scott Momaday)

Crying for Vision in James Welch's Winter in the Blood

Ceremony: from Alienation to Reciprocity (leslie Marmon Silko)

Building Bridges: Crossing the Waters to a Love Medicine (Louise Erdrich)

Preface: African American Literature

Ethnic and Gender Identity in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

Racial Discourse and Self-Creation: Richard Wright's Black Boy

"Measure Him Right": an Analysis of Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun

"Closer to the Edge": Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

A Fairy-Tale Life: The Making of Celie in Alice Walker's the Color Purple

Preface: Mexican American Literature

Learning to Read (and/In) Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima

Chicano Theatre Reaches the Professional Stage: Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit

Entering the House on Mango Street (sandra Cisneros)

Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory and New Perspectives on Ethnic Autobiography

Preface: Asian American Literature

Searching for the Heart of "America" (carlos Bulosan)

"Growing with Stories":: Chinese American Identities, Textual Identities (maxine Hong Kingston)

Experiential Approaches to Teaching Joy Kogawa's Obasan

Reading Between the Syllables: Hisaye Yamamoto's Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories

Swan-Feather Mothers and Coca-Cola Daughters: Teaching Amy Tan's the Joy Luck Club

Contributors
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Brechtian and Aztec Violence in Valdez's Zoot Suit, in Journal of Popular Film and Television
by Mark Pizzato. 10 pgs.

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Theatre for Working-Class Audiences in the United States, 1830-1980 (Discussion of Luis Valdez begins on p. 185)
by Bruce A. McConachie, Daniel Friedman. 272 pgs.

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Recent Titles In Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies

Copyright Acknowledgments

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Illustrations

Introduction

Notes

1 "The Theatre of the Mob": Apocalyptic Melodrama And Preindustrial Riots in Antebellum New York

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2 The Plebeian Moment: Theatre And Working-Class Life in Late Nineteenth-Century Pittsburgh

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3 German-American Socialist Workers' Theatre, 1877-1900

4 The Yiddish Theatre in New York: 1900

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5 Shakespeare, Sardou, and Pulcinella: Italian-American Working-Class Theatre in New York, 1880-1940

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6 The Paterson Strike Pageant of 1913

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7 "Let Them Be Amused": The Industrial Drama Movement, 1910-1929

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8 A Brief Description of the Workers' Theatre Movement of the Thirties

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9 The Workers' Laboratory Theatre: Archetype and Example

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10 Working-Class Theatre on the Auto Picket Line

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11 The Federal Theatre Project's Search For an Audience

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12 El Teatro Campesino: The Farmworkers' Theatre

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13 Contemporary Theatre for Working- Class Audiences in the United States

Introduction

Conclusion

Notes

Appendix A Theatre Questionnaire

Appendix B Contemporary Theatres for Working- Class Audiences in the United States That Had Been in Existence for at Least Two Years in 1983

Selected Bibliography

Index

Contributors

About the Editors
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Necessary Theater: Six Plays about the Chicano Experience ("The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa" by Luis Valdez begins on p. 142)
by Jorge Huerta. 368 pgs.

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Necessary Theater includes: The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa, by Luis Valdez; Money, by Arthur Giron; Latina, by Milcha Sanchez Scott with Jeremy Blahnik; Soldierboy, by Judith and Severo Perez; and Guadalupe and La victima, both by El Teatro de la Esperanza. Necessary Theater is the first anthology of Chicano theater published in a decade and includes only plays that have been professionally staged to critical acclaim. An introduction by Jorge Huerta, along with commentaries on each author and play, is included. Jorge Huerta, the author of Chicano Theater: Themes and Forms, is a professor in the drama department at the University of California-San Diego.

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Introduction

Soldierboy

Soldierboy

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Latina

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The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa

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Guadalupe

Brief History of The: Teatro De La Esperanza: the First Four Years

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Money

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La Víctima

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Bibliography

Plays and Anthologies
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Theatre, Society, and the Nation: Staging American Identities (Discussion of Luis Valdez begins on p. 138)
by S. E. Wilmer. 281 pgs.

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Theater has often served as a touchstone for critical moments of political change or national definition. Steve Wilmer selects key historical moments in American history to examine the theater's response. The selected events range from the Colonial fight for independence through Native American struggles, the Socialist Worker play and the Civil Rights Movement, to those of the last decade. Wilmer also considers audience reception and critical response.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

1: From British Colony to Independent Nation: Refashioning Identity

2: Federalist and Democratic Republican Theatre: Partisan Drama in Nationalist Trappings

3: Independence for Whom? American Indians and the Ghost Dance

4: The Role of Workers in the Nation the Paterson Strike Pageant

5: Staging Social Rebellion in the 1960s

6: Reconfiguring Patriarchy: Suffragette and Feminist Plays

7: Imaging and Deconstructing the Multicultural Nation in the 1990s

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Index
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Ethnic Theatre in the United States (Discussion of Luis Valdez begins on p. 346)
by Maxine Schwartz Seller. 610 pgs.

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"Strongly recommended for undergraduate and graduate libraries; useful in theater, American history, and ethnic studies." Choice

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Introduction

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1: Armenian-American Theatre

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2: Black Theatre

BIBLIOGRAPHY

3: Byelorussian-American Theatre

CONCLUSIONS

Appendix: Listing of Plays Performed by Byelorussian Theatres in the United States

NOTES

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4: Danish-American Theatre

Appendix A: Productions of Harmonien in Settle, Washington, from 1906 to 1961

Appendix B: Flays Performed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by Various Danish/Norwegian Groups, from 1870-1910

Appendix C: Plays Performed by the Ungdomsforening af 1905 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from 1906 to 1915

Appendix D: Performances in Chicago by the Danish Young People's Society, from c. 1914 to 1945

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5: Finnish-American Theatre

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6: French Theatre in Louisiana

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7: German-American Theatre

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8: Hungarian-American Theatre

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9: Irish-American Theatre

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10: Italian - American Theatre

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11: Latvian-American Theatre

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12: Lithuanian-American Theatre

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13: Mexican-American Theatre

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14: Native American Theatre

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15: Polish-American Theatre

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16: Puerto Rican Theatre on the Mainland

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17: Slovak-American Theatre

Appendix A: Early Use of Slovak in Drama

Appendix B: Slovak Performances and Directors in Binghamton, New York, 1902-1919

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

18: Swedish-American Theatre

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19: Ukrainian-American Theatre

CONCLUSION

Appendix: Ukrainian Theatre Companies (by Year Organized and Location)

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

20: Yiddish Theatre

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Index

About the Contributors

About the Editor
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Theatrical Directors: A Biographical Dictionary (Discussion of Luis Valdez begins on p. 406)
by John W. Frick, Stephen M. Vallillo. 574 pgs.

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""This book should be impressive to aspiring theater arts students as well as to those who simply love theater. Highly recommended for most collections." Library Journal

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Preface

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Appendix A: Chronological List of Directors

Appendix B: Directors Listed by Country in Which Primary Work Was Done

Selected Bibliography

Name Index

Play, Film, and Television Title Index

About the Advisors and Contributors

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