Fronteras Americanas
by Guillermo Verdecchia
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"Fronteras Americanas recreates one person{u2019}s struggle to construct a home between two cultures, while exploding the images and constructs built up around Latinos and Latin America. This one-person play works through bold juxtapositions and satiric reference points: Simón Bolívar and Speedy Gonzales; Columbus and Fodor{u2019}s travel guides; Ricky Ricardo and the Latin Lover; La Bamba and Placido Domingo; Carlos Fuentes and American drug-war movies. Verdecchia twirls stereotypes and clichés, offers comparative histories, examines myths and mysticism, and provides lessons in language and dancing. In this follow-up to the Governor General's Award-winning original play (first published in 1993), the Border trope is reconsidered in a twenty-first-century context, taking into account accelerated globalization and new material and economic realities"--Page 4 of cover.
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