Performances of Suffering in Latin American Migration: Heroes, Martyrs and Saints

by Vctor M Espinosa, Ana Elena Puga, Victor Espinosa

Book Overview

This book questions the reliance on melodrama and spectacle in social performances and cultural productions by and about migrants from Mexico and Central America to the United States. Focusing on archetypal characters with nineteenth-century roots that recur in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries - heroic saviors, saintly mothers and struggling fathers, martyred children and rebellious youth - it shows how theater practitioners, filmmakers,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030374114
• ISBN13: 9783030374112
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"