SPN 418 - Readings on Contemporary Mexican Theater

Course Units: 1.0

The course explores Mexican theater from the 1950’s to the present focusing on playwrights that seek to stage and imagine the nation and their communities either contesting or legitimizing hegemonic narratives of cultural uniformity, normative gender and sexual roles, and a cohesive political state. We will analyze dramatic texts by Luisa Josefina Hernandez, Emilio Carballido, Hugo Arguelles, Leonor Azcarate, Víctor Hugo Rascon Banda, Jesus Gonzalez Davila, Sabina Berman, Hugo Salcedo, among others. Prerequisite(s): Two 300-level courses. CC: LCCS, HUL, WAC, WS ISP: GSWS, LAS