Dreaming on a Sunday in the Alameda and Other Plays

by Carlos Morton

Book Overview

This innovative collection, featuring three plays by Carlos Morton, spans five centuries of Mexican and Mexican American history. In the tradition of teatro campesino, these plays present provocative revisions of historical events.

The first play, La Malinche, challenges the historical record of the tragic clash between Indians and Spaniards. The near-mythical La Malinche, who betrayed her country for love of Hernan Cortez but was then betrayed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806136413
• ISBN13: 9780806136417
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 8.9"