Forum: Notes from the Ivory Labyrinth of Solitude

The author considers some of the factors that keep her and her colleagues from having meaningful discussions about Latin American theater: the language; the extent that U.S. theater department training programs are tied to commercial theater; and its subservience to Euro-American culture, which deni...

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Published inTheatre journal (Washington, D.C.) Vol. 56; no. 3; pp. 449 - 452
Main Author Underiner, Tamara L
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington, D. C Johns Hopkins University Press 01.10.2004
Subjects
Culture
Discourse
Higher Education
Latin American Theater
Performance Studies
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Summary:The author considers some of the factors that keep her and her colleagues from having meaningful discussions about Latin American theater: the language; the extent that U.S. theater department training programs are tied to commercial theater; and its subservience to Euro-American culture, which denies its identity. Latin-American theater deserves to be taken on its own terms.
ISSN:0192-2882
1086-332X