free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com www.ebook777.com free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Embodying Difference free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com www.ebook777.com free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Embodying Difference Scripting Social Images of the Female Body in Latina Theatre Linda Saborío FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY PRESS Madison · Teaneck free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 www.rowmanlittlefield.com Estover Road, Plymouth PL6 7PY, United Kingdom Copyright © 2012 by Linda Saborío All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Saborío, Linda, 1969– Embodying difference : scripting social images of the female body in latina theatre / Linda Saborío p cm Includes bibliographical references ISBN 978-1-61147-467-1 (cloth : alk paper) — ISBN 978-1-61147-468-8 (electronic) Hispanic American theater Latin American drama—History and criticism Hispanic American women in literature Latin Americans in literature Gender identity in literature Human body in literature I Title PN2270.H57S24 2011 792.082'098—dc23 2011039570 ϱ ™ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 Printed in the United States of America www.ebook777.com free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Contents Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Theatrics of Performing Difference xi One: Parodying Otherness: Beauty Contests, Beauty Myths, and Beautiful Señoritas Two: Role Playing Latinidad: Engaging the Female Body in Diverse Identities 19 Three: Staging a Chicana and Latina Body Politic 47 Four: Marketing Difference: The “Other” Female Consumer 67 Five: Latina Bodies in a Global Market 81 Six: Reclaiming Religion: Milagros and the Sexual Objectification of Latinas 105 Final Curtain: The Exposure of Latina Bodies 141 Bibliography 145 Index 155 v free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com www.ebook777.com free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Illustrations 1.1 Carmen Miranda, “The Brazilian Bombshell,” flanked by John Payne and Cesar Romero in the film musical, “Springtime in the Rockies” (1942) 2.1 Cast from Yo soy Latina! at the Pantheon Theater production (2004) 26 2.2 Scene from Yo soy Latina! at the Pantheon Theater production (2004) 29 6.1 Our Lady of Guadalupe (Marian apparition), Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Tepeyac, Mexico City (1531) 110 6.2 Ester Hernández, La Virgen de Guadalupe Defendiendo los Derechos de los Xicanos [The Virgin of Guadalupe Defending the Rights of Xicanos] (1975) 111 6.3 Yolanda López, Portrait of the Artist as the Virgin of Guadalupe (1978), oil pastel on paper 113 6.4 “Soup Scene” from the Cheap Theater production of Santa Concepción 127 6.5 “Levitation Scene” from the Cheap Theater production of Santa Concepción 129 vii free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com www.ebook777.com free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Acknowledgments I would like to take a moment to express my appreciation to scholars, artists, and playwrights as well as the anonymous readers who have helped me in the completion of this book To Mary Cozad, fellow colleague, I would like to extend my appreciation for her expertise in editing and her continued support I am likewise grateful for my talk with Kirstin Nigro at a small coffee shop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil the summer of 2010 Without her advice and unending support, this book may never have been completed My special gratitude goes to Anne Birberick for allowing me to use her mentorship in order to successfully place my book with a publisher Likewise, I am very grateful to playwright Anne García-Romero for sharing her personal experiences with me and for her unconditional support in locating photographers of past performances To artists Ester Hernández and Yolanda Lopez I express my appreciation for giving me permission to use their artwork in my book I must also mention my gratitude for the e-mail exchanges with playwright Linda Nieves-Powell, who showed generous enthusiasm for my work and who allowed me to reprint her photographs Finally, I extend my thanks to Erica Christ, Artistic Director of the Cheap Theater in Minneapolis, who contacted me at the last minute and graciously allowed me to reprint photographs from their production of Santa Concepción In addition to the inspiration of my colleagues, the completion of this book would not have been possible without the institutional support from the Latino and Latin American Studies Center at Northern Illinois University, which provided me with research assistance and travel funds, and the NIU Faculty Research and Artistry Grant, which provided me with the funds to dedicate my time to research and writing ix free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com 144 Final Curtain to fully understand the multiple encounters that shape Latina discourses in the United States Through recognition of their differences, the characters in these plays learn to empower their own lives, and they begin a necessary process of recovering their identities that have been suppressed by cultural, sociopolitical, and principally masculine systems of gender oppression The center staging of Latina experiences by playwrights Bustamante, Fusco, García-Romero, López, Moraga, Nieves-Powell, Prida, and Sánchez-Scott is in fact not the final curtain call but instead a call for further theatrical staging that will continue to give shape to an even greater understanding of Latina subjectivities www.ebook777.com free ebooks ==> 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Yamamoto, Traise Masking Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999 Yarbro-Bejarano, Yvonne “Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La frontera: Cultural Studies, ‘Difference,’ and the Non-Unitary Subject.” Cultural Critique 28 (Autumn 1994): 5–28 Young, Julie “Barbie Doll Turns the Big 5-0.” Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 8, 2009, accessed January 10, 2011, http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/lifestyles/ fashion_style/article/S-BARB08_20090304-185656/221803 free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com www.ebook777.com free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Index An italic page number indicates a figure Abel, Lionel, 34 Alarcón, Norma, xxi, 23, 86–87 Alsultany, Evelyn, xxxiii Alvarez, Alma Rosa, 61 Anzaldúa, Gloria, xiii, xxviii–xxix, 42, 62, 87, 112, 114, 120 Arnaz, Desi, 19 Arrizón, Alicia, xviii, xix, 20, 28, 31, 33, 51, 63, 91 Aztlán, 50–52, 59, 62 Bank Muñoz, Carolina, 57, 71 Bordo, Susan, 67–68, 74, 92, 108 brownness, xxvi, 16, 67, 82–87, 141 Broyles-González, Yolanda, xv Bustamante, Nao, xvii, 82, 86–90, 92, 94–97, 99–101, 143–44 Butler, Judith, xxvii, 86, 99 Case, Sue-Ellen, xiv, 119, 122 Castillo, Ana, 121–23 Catholicism and feminism, xvii, 50, 55, 62–63, 115–16, 119–20, 134–35; and Latino identity, 61, 105–108, 125 Chabram-Dernersesian, Angie, 48 Chávez-Silverman, Suzanne, xv Christian, Karen, xxvi Chumacero, Olivia, xiv consumerism, xvii, 1–2, 7–13, 71–78, 82 cultural genderism, 10–11 Daly, Mary, 119 Dávila, Arlene, 91 Dee Cervantes, Lorna, 47 difference: biological, xxiv, xxxii, 10, 12, 14, 32; and gender, xxvii, 6, 48, 58, 63, 76–77, 121, 134; markers of, xi, xv–xvi, 5, 20, 22, 28, 40, 43, 52–54, 73, 82, 86–87, 92, 99; performance of, xxiv, xix, xxx, xxxiii, 3,4, 10, 12–15, 30–31, 42–43, 48, 54, 60, 64, 74, 76, 77, 82, 96, 107, 115–16, 118, 123–24, 134; theory, xxii, xviii, xx–xxiii, 14, 42, 58–59, 68, 82, 84–87, 90, 97, 143 El Teatro Campesino, xiv–xv, 50 eroticization, 82, 92, 118 Feliciano, Wilma, 12 Felski, Rita, 71–72, 75 Fernández, Evelina, 20 Figueroa, María P., 73 155 free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com 156 Index Friedman, Thomas, 84 Fusco, Coco, xv, xvii, xxii, 82, 86–90, 92–97, 99–101, 143–44 Gambaro, Griselda, xiv García Canclini, Nestor, 83, 85 García-Romero, Anne, xvii–xviii, 107, 116–18, 127, 136, 143–44 Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., xxxii globalization, 8, 23, 72, 81–82, 84, 87, 89–90, 100 Gómez-Pa, Guillermo, xv, 23, 81, 88 Hall, Stuart, xxxiii, 90–91, 100 Hayek, Salma, 20, 37 Hernández, Ester, 109, 112, 115–16 Herrera-Sobek, María, 41 hooks, bell, xxxii Huerta, Dolores, 55–56 Huerta, Jorge, 21–22, 127–28 indigenous cultures and feminism, 41, 50, 61–63, 81, 88–89, 93–97, 122–23, 131; and religion, 48, 50, 62–63, 95–96, 106–8, 112–14 Irigaray, Luce, xxvii Keating, Analouise, xiii La Malinche, xxviii, 122, 131; malinchista, 52, 125 Larson, Catherine, 35 latinidad, xi, xviii–xix, xxxi, 19–22, 24, 42, 59–60, 82, 86, 96, 99, 125, 128, 141; performances of, xii, xvi, xxiv–xxv, 6, 22, 27, 30, 32–37, 40, 43, 142–43 López, Alma, 115–16 López-Garza, Marta C., 71 Lopez, Jennifer, 20, 37, 67 López, Josefina, xiv, xvii, xxviii, 69–70, 72–76, 120, 142, 144 López, Yolanda, 112, 113, 114–16 Lorde, Audre, xx Madsen, Deborah L., 14–15 mestizaje, xii, xviii–xx, 63–64, 108 mestiza, xviii–xix, xxv–xxvi, xxviii–xxx, 28, 42–43, 48, 51–52, 64, 79, 87, 109, 142 milagros, 105, 107, 121, 127–28, 135 Miranda, Carmen, 4, 5, 6, 19 Molina-Guzmán, Isabel, xvi, 13 Moraga, Cherríe, xiii, xvii, xxix, 48–52, 54–56, 59, 142, 144 Morales, Aurora Levins, xxv Morales, Rosario, xxv Moretta, Eugene, 31, 39 Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MeCHA), 52 mulata, xvii, xxvi, xxx, 1, 92–93 neo–modernization, 72 Nieves–Powell, Linda, xi–xii, xvi, xviii, 21, 24–25, 27, 31, 37–38, 43–44, 78, 142, 144 Ortiz Cofer, Judith, xxix–xxx other, concepts of, xvi, xix, xxvi, xxx, xxxiii, 19, 23–24, 35, 40–42, 69, 82, 85–86, 100 otherness, 3, 6–11, 58–59, 79, 88, 90–91, 94, 97, 143 Prida, Dolores, xvi, 2–4, 6–7, 9–15, 141–42, 144 race/raza, xxi–xxv, xxxii, 32–33, 50, 62, 72, 86, 89, 92–93, 99, 108, 131 Roberts-Camps, Traci, 13–14, 68, 91 Sánchez, Rosaura, xx Sánchez-Scott, Milcha, xvi, xxxi, 21–28, 31–32, 42, 73, 78, 97, 127–28, 142, 144 Sandoval, Chela, xx–xxi www.ebook777.com free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Index 157 Sandoval-Sánchez, Alberto, xvi, xviii–xix, xxxi, 11, 19, 59 Saporta Sternbach, Nancy, xviii, xix, xxxi, 59 Schechner, Richard, xxiii–xxiv Seda, Laurietz, 23 Sommer, Doris, 58–59 Valdez, Luis, xiv, 51 Vila, Pablo, xxxi, 105 Virgin of Guadalupe, xviii, xxviii, 49, 55, 62–63, 107–9, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114–16, 136 Virgin Mary, 62, 107–9 Viramontes, Helena María, 40 Taylor, Diana, xxii Thomas, Piri, xxiv–xxv, 22, 30–31 transculturation, xii, xviii–xix, xxi, 23 Williams, Gareth, 84–85 Yarbro-Bejarano, Yvonne, xxix free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com www.ebook777.com ... www.ebook777.com Embodying Difference free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com www.ebook777.com free ebooks ==> 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