Latins Anonymous
Title | Latins Anonymous PDF eBook |
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Publisher | Arte Publico Press |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 1996-01-01 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9781611922011 |
Nothing is sacred in the satire of Latins Anonymous. The hilarious Latino comedy theater company has toured the United States poking fun at all, from political figures to Latino entertainment personalities. Formed in 1988 and performing at such mainstream venues as the Los Angeles Theater Center as well as alternative space sin barrios across the Southwest, Latins Anonymous has developed its own distinctive, post-modern and very irreverent style of commenting on life and culture in the U.S. Included in this first published collection are the troupeÕs signature play, Latins Anonymous, which satirizes the rejection of oneÕs cultural heritage and The La La Awards, in which the media are lampooned through outlandish impersonations of favorite Latino stars.
Latins Anonymous
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Latins Anonymous
Title | Latins Anonymous PDF eBook |
Author | Luisa Leschin |
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Pages | 58 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | American drama |
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Latin Numbers
Title | Latin Numbers PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Eugenio Herrera |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2015-06-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0472121065 |
Latin Numbers is a work of performance history, examining the way in which Latino actors on the twentieth-century stage and screen communicated and influenced American ideas about race and ethnicity. Brian Eugenio Herrera looks at how these performances and performers contributed to American popular understanding of Latinos as a distinct racial and ethnic group. His book tracks the conspicuously “Latin” musical number; the casting of Latino actors; the history of West Side Story; how Latina/o performers confront stereotypes; and the proliferation of the gay Latino character in the AIDS era. With a flair for storytelling and a unique ability to see the deeper meanings embedded in popular culture, Herrera creates a history that will appeal to popular culture enthusiasts, theater aficionados, and those interested in the cultural history of Latinos. The book will also delight readers interested in the memorable (and many of the lesser-known) Latino performances on stage and screen.
Lucian and the Latins
Title | Lucian and the Latins PDF eBook |
Author | David Marsh |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780472108466 |
Explores Lucian's influence on Renaissance writers
Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature
Title | Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Noemi Voionmaa |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2022-08-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1009191225 |
Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature examines secret police reports on Gabriel García Márquez, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Elena Poniatowska, José Revueltas, Otto René Castillo, Carlos Cerda, and other writers, from archives in Mexico, Chile, Guatemala, Uruguay, the German Democratic Republic, and the USA. Combining literary and cultural analysis, history, philosophy, and history of art, it establishes a critical dialogue between the spies' surveillance and the writers' novels, short stories, and poems, and presents a new take on Latin American modernity, tracing the trajectory of a modern gaze from the Italian Renaissance to the Cold War. It traces the origins of today's surveillance society with sense of urgency and consequence that should appeal to academic and non-academic readers alike throughout the Americas, Europe and beyond.
Orthodox Cyprus under the Latins, 1191–1571
Title | Orthodox Cyprus under the Latins, 1191–1571 PDF eBook |
Author | Chrysovalantis Kyriacou |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 2018-10-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1498551165 |
Medieval and Renaissance Cyprus was a fascinating place of ethnic, cultural, and religious encounters. Following almost nine centuries of Byzantine rule, Cyprus was conquered by the Crusaders in 1191, becoming (until 1571) the most important stronghold of Latin Christianity in the Eastern Mediterranean—first under the Frankish dynasty of the Lusignans, and later under the Venetians. Modern historiographical readings of Cypriot identity in medieval and early modern times have been colored by British colonialism, Greek nationalism, and Cyprocentric revisionism. Although these perspectives have offered valuable insights into the historical experience of Latin-ruled Cypriots, they have partially failed to capture the dynamics of noncoercive resistance to domination, and of identity preservation and adaptation. Orthodox Cyprus under the Latins, 1191–1571 readdresses the question of Cypriot identity by focusing on the Greek Cypriots, the island’s largest community during the medieval and early modern period. By bringing together theories from the fields of psychology, social anthropology, and sociology, this study explores continuities and discontinuities in the Byzantine culture and religious tradition of Cyprus, proposing a new methodological framework for a more comprehensive understanding of Cypriot Orthodoxy under Crusader and Venetian rule. A discussion of fresh evidence from hitherto unpublished primary sources enriches this examination, stressing the role of medieval and Renaissance Cyprus as cultural and religious province of the Byzantine and post-Byzantine Orthodox world.