Mummified deer and other plays /
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| Author / Creator: | Valdez, Luis. |
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| Imprint: | Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press, c2005. |
| Description: | xiii, 191 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5647144 |
| Summary: | This volume brings together three plays by Luis Valdez, the most-distinguished Latino playwright and director. With an introduction by Chicano Theater scholar Jorge Huerta, this collection includes two never-before published dramas. Returning to the format of the tent show in Mummified Deer, Valdez mines maternal psychology and Yaqui mysticism to demand that characters scale the full gamut of emotions. In this gut-wrenching piece, Mama Chu is the dominant, imposing figure who must reconcile the present with the past and unify the conflicting histories and identities of her family. Mundo Mata is the long-awaited drama of unionizing farm workers battling the agribusiness power structure in California while Mexican Americans are being sent off to battle brown-skinned enemies in Vietnam. Valdez assesses the toll that families have to pay to remain united against divisive forces. It all comes down to Reymundo, the antihero, who in the end must weigh existential and political questions. The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa, Valdez's re-worked first play, still holds all the vision, spunk, and innovation of the young playwright. Injecting black humor into domestic drama, disembodied heads talk, mothers exchange roles with the patriarch, Pachucos banter, and Sell-Outs become the mouthpieces for an oppressed community. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 191 p. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1558854177 9781558854178 |
