A History of Latinx Performing Arts in the U.S.

Part I  From the Spanish Frontier to the U.S. Borderlands  1 The Spanish Mission Era: Traces of a Living Culture after Three Hundred Years of Colonial Rule  2 The Mexican Period and Beyond: The Creation Generation  3 First Migrant Generation and the Establishing of the Border in the Southwest 4 Mexican Americans: The Shaping of a Community  Part II  Re-Writing History: Mexican American/Chicana/o Dramaturgy  1 Chicano Renaissance: The Flourishing of a Movement  2 Chicana/o/Latinx Playwriting: The Gender Perspective  3 Playwrights as Historians: Building a Counter History  Part III  Building a Border Consciousness: Identity Politics and Social Change  1 The Border as a Discursive Space  2 Representing Immigration: The Process of Un-Othering the Border Crosser  3 The "Latinx Threat": Defeating the Culture of Fear and Silence  4 Octavio Solis: The Voice of Affect in the Borderlands

Beatriz J. Rizk, Ph.D., is the Educational Director of the International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami, USA, and a member of Teatro Avante. She has published numerous articles on Latinx and Latin American theatre in specialized journals in the Americas and Europe. Her books include Imaginando un Continente: Utopía, democracia y neoliberalismo en el teatro latinoamericano, 2 Volumes (2010).