Homing the Stage in New U.S, Latina Theater

• Autores: Nancy Saporta Sternbach, Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez
• Localización: Evolving origins, transplanting cultures: literary Legacies of the news Americans / coord. por Laura Alonso Gallo; Antonia Domínguez Miguela (aut.), 2002, ISBN 978-84-95699-70-1, págs. 277-288
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • Using postcolonial theories of deterritorialization and space, this essay examines the conceptualization of home and displacement in contemporary U.S. Latina theater. In a critical reading of Janis Astor del Valle's play Be Home Para Navidad the authors concentrate on the dialectical relationship between space and identity formation to show how a lesbian subjectivity in process must negotiate between traditional family values and a new alternative home and family based on sexual orientation. This play not only centerstages homophobia, but also shows how the protagonist forces her closest relatives to examine and question their entire ethos as her prodding scrutinizes racism, classism, machismo, ethnocentrism, and patriarchy, revealing their inevitable intersection.