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.

The first extended analysis of Latin American revision in theater and its cultural significance Offers insights to Adaptation Theory, Archive Studies, and Community/Self-Performance and Identity Explores works across the Hispanic Caribbean, with focuses on classical and seminal works as they move across Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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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.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Considering Revisions.- 2. What's Old is New Again: Ancient Greek Theater Alive in the Spanish Caribbean.- 3. Returning to the Origins: The Use of Christianity in Spanish Caribbean Theater.- 4. Returning to the Past: The Use of History in Spanish Caribbean Theater.- 5. Re-Writing the Nation and the Self.