El Teatro Campesino

Yolanda Broyles-González is professor and chair in the department of Chicano studies and professor of German studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. El Teatro Campesino and the Mexican Popular Performance TraditionOral Tradition: Human Memory, the Body, CommunityThe Political Economy of Chicana/o ComedyRasquachi Performance Aesthetic and Historical MemoryEl Teatro Campesino and Mexican Sacroprofane Performance GenresConclusion2. Theater of the Sphere: Toward the Formulation of a Native Performance Theory and PracticeOn Formulating an Indigenous Alternative Performance AestheticTheater of the Sphere: Affirming the Chicana/o AxisThe Formation of the Spherical Actor: A New Chicana/o HumanismTheater of the Sphere: The Twenty StepsTheater of the Sphere: The World of PerformanceTheater of the Sphere: Liberation or Mystification?3. Toward a Re-Vision of Chicana/o Theater History: The Roles of Women in El Teatro CampesinoIntroductionThe Roles of Women in El Teatro CampesinoBreaking the Mold: Creating New PathwaysAn Epilogue: Chicanas Onstage in the 1980s4. El Teatro Campesino: From Alternative Theater to MainstreamIntroductionEl Teatro Campesino in the MainstreamRose of the Rancho: Validating Chicana/o OppressionThe New Professionalism: Zoot Suit in the MainstreamChicanas/os on Broadway: To Be or Not to Be?Zoot Suit: The FilmMainstreaming and the Dissolution of the Teatro Campesino EnsembleConclusion: Whither El Teatro Campesino?ChronologyNotesBibliographyIndex

This welcome addition in critical theory about the Chicana/o theater movement is recommended for those researchers interested in theater practice and performance, women's studies, and cultural studies. (Choice) An excellent work in Chicano historiography and performativity. . . . Broyles-GonzÁlez does not merely intend to de-mythologize the [Luis] Valdez-centered cultural history of the Teatro; more importantly, she begins to explore a specific period and scope of a collective performance practice in the Teatro. (Theatre Journal)