The Theater of Revisions in the Hispanic Caribbean

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Considering Revisions

   • Katherine Ford

   Pages 1-21

3. Collaborative Rewriting in Cuba’s Teatro Escambray

   • Katherine Ford

   Pages 23-45

4. What’s Old is New Again: Ancient Greek Theater Alive in the Spanish Caribbean

   • Katherine Ford

   Pages 47-87

5. Returning to the Origins: The Use of Christianity in Spanish Caribbean Theater

   • Katherine Ford

   Pages 89-135

6. Returning to the Past: The Use of History in Spanish Caribbean Theater

   • Katherine Ford

   Pages 137-181

7. Conclusion: Re-writing the Nation and the Self

   • Katherine Ford

   Pages 183-206

8. Back Matter

   Pages 207-219

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This book explores the textured process of rewriting and revising theatrical works in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean as both a material and metaphorical practice. Deftly tracing these themes through community theater groups, ancient Greek theater, religious traditions, and national historical events, Katherine Ford weaves script, performance and final product together with an eye to the social significance of revision. Ultimately, to rewrite and revise is to re-envision and re-imagine stage practices in the twentieth-century Hispanic Caribbean.

• Spanish Caribbean Theater
• Theater and Revision
• Classics and Reinterpretation
• Archive Studies
• Latin America and Cultural Recoding
• latin american politics

“Katherine Ford provides a thorough and convincing analysis of both the process and the product of revising in 20th-century Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican theatre. She successfully applies contemporary theories on palimpsest, literary adaptation, intertextuality, and the archive to show how dramatists and theatre groups from the Spanish-speaking islands of the Caribbean have rewritten and revised classical theatre, classical myths, Christian dogma, and national myths to revise the past, understand the present, and create the future of their respective island. At a time of increasing immigration from the Caribbean, Ford's study goes far in helping us to understand the unique cultural and political history of these three islands as well as their contributions to world theatre.” (Jacqueline Bixler, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA)

• Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, East Carolina University, Greenville, USA

  Katherine Ford

Katherine Ford is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Hispanic Studies and Faculty Fellow to the Honors College at East Carolina University, USA. Her research interests lie in twentieth-century Latin American Theater and Performance, Women’s studies and Latino/a Theater. She is author of Politics and Violence in Cuban and Argentine Theater (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Her work has been published in journals such as Hispanic Issues OnLine, Gestos, and the Latin American Theatre Review.

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