{"product_id":"9780816533862","title":"The Fornes Frame: Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes","description":"A key way to view Latina plays today is through the foundational frame of playwright and teacher Maria Irene Fornes, who has trained a generation of theatre artists and transformed the field of American theatre. Fornes, author of \u003ci\u003eFefu and Her Friends\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSarita\u003c\/i\u003e and a nine-time Obie Award winner, is known for her plays that traverse cultural, spiritual, and aesthetic borders.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Fornes Frame: Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes\u003c\/i\u003e, Anne García-Romero considers the work of five award-winning Latina playwrights in the early twenty-first century, offering her unique perspective as a theatre studies scholar who is also a professional playwright.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The playwrights in this book include Pulitzer Prize–winner Quiara Alegría Hudes; Obie Award–winner Caridad Svich; Karen Zacarías, resident playwright at Arena Stage in Washington, DC; Elaine Romero, member of the Goodman Theatre Playwrights Unit in Chicago, Illinois; and Cusi Cram, company member of the LAByrinth Theater Company in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Using four key concepts—cultural multiplicity, supernatural intervention, Latina identity, and theatrical experimentation—García-Romero shows how these playwrights expand past a consideration of a single culture toward broader, simultaneous connections to diverse cultures. The playwrights also experiment with the theatrical form as they redefine what a Latina play can be. Following Fornes’s legacy, these playwrights continue to contest and complicate Latina theatre.","brand":"University of Arizona Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118845575408,"sku":"9780816533862","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780816533862_p0.jpg?v=1763748586","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780816533862","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}