| Series |
Routledge advances in theatre & performance studies
Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies. ^A571745
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| Contents |
Bilingualism and Translation as Caring Performance -- Caring Performance in Public Art -- Spaces of Care -- Transforming Disaster through Defiant Joy. |
| Abstract |
"This study positions four musicals and their associated artists as mobilizers of defiant joy in relation to trauma and healing in Puerto Rico. The book argues that the historical trajectory of these musicals has formed a canon of works that have reiterated, resisted or transformed experiences of trauma through linguistic, ritual, and geographic interventions. These traumas may be disaster-related, migrant-related, colonial or patriarchal. Bilingualism and translation, ritual action, and geographic space engage moments of trauma (natural disaster, incarceration, death) and healing (community celebration, grieving, emancipation) in these works. The musicals considered are West Side Story (1957, 2009, 2019); The Capeman (1998); In the Heights (2008); and Hamilton (2015). Central to this argument is that each of the musicals discussed is tied to Puerto Rico, either through the representation of Puerto Rican characters and stories, or through the Puerto Rican positionality of its creators. The author moves beyond the musicals to consider Lin-Manuel Miranda as an embodied site of healing, that has been met with controversy, as well as posthurricane Maria relief efforts led by Miranda on the island and from a distance. In each of the works discussed, acts of belonging shape notions of survivorship and witness. This book also opens a dialogue between these musicals and the work of island-based artists Y no había luz, that has served as sites of first response to disaster. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in Latinx Theatre, Musical Theatre and Translation studies"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 22, 2023). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Rua, Colleen. Performance, trauma and Puerto Rico in musical theatre Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2023 9781032251950 |
| LCCN | 2023023685 |
| ISBN | 9781003282013 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1003282016 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1000925536 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9781000925593 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1000925595 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9781000925531 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | hardcover |
| ISBN | hardcover |
| ISBN | paperback |
| Standard identifier# |
10.4324/9781003282013 |
| Stock number | 9781003282013 Taylor & Francis |
