1st Edition

Performance, Trauma and Puerto Rico in Musical Theatre

By Colleen Rua Copyright 2023
144 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

144 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

144 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This study positions four musicals and their associated artists as mobilizers of defiant joy in relation to trauma and healing in Puerto Rico. This book argues that the historical trajectory of these musicals has formed a canon of works that have reiterated, resisted or transformed experiences of trauma through linguistic, ritual, and geographic interventions. These traumas may be... Read more

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Bilingualism and Translation as Caring Performance

Chapter 2: Caring Performance in Public Art

Chapter 3: Spaces of Care

Chapter 4: Transforming Disaster through Defiant Joy

Afterword

Index

Biography

Colleen Rua is Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies in the School of Theatre and Dance at the University of Florida, USA.