Kissing Fidel

Kissing Fidel
Author: Eduardo Machado
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2006
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573632877

Set in an upscale Miami funeral home, where a Cuban-American family has gathered for its matriarch's final rites. The black sheep of the family, a successful novelist who has used his relatives as the source material for his books, much to their horror and pride, unexpectedly returns, announcing that he plans to return to Cuba to kiss and forgive Fidel Castro.

Kissing Fidel

Kissing Fidel
Author: Magda Montiel Davis
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1609387260

What does it mean to be instantly transformed into the most hated person in your community? After meeting Fidel Castro at a Havana reception in 1994, Cuban-born Magda Montiel Davis, founder of one of the largest immigration law firms in South Florida, soon found out. The reception—attended by hundreds of other Cuban émigrés—was videotaped for historical archives. In a seconds-long clip, Fidel pecks the traditional protocol kiss on Montiel Davis’s cheek as she thanks him for the social benefits conferred upon the Cuban people. The video, however, was mysteriously sold to U.S. reporters and aired incessantly throughout South Florida. Soon the encounter was an international cause célèbre. Life as she knew it was over for Montiel Davis and her family, including a father who worked with the CIA to topple Fidel, a nohablo-inglés mother who lived with the family, her five children, and her Jewish Brooklyn-born attorney husband. Kissing Fidel shares the sometimes dismal, sometimes comical realities of an ordinary citizen being thrown into a world of death threats, mob attacks, and terrorism.

Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism

Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism
Author: Patricia A. Ybarra
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2017-11-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0810136473

Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism traces how Latinx theater in the United States has engaged with the policies, procedures, and outcomes of neoliberal economics in the Americas from the 1970s to the present. Patricia A. Ybarra examines IMF interventions, NAFTA, shifts in immigration policy, the escalation of border industrialization initiatives, and austerity programs. She demonstrates how these policies have created the conditions for many of the most tumultuous events in the Americas in the last forty years, including dictatorships in the Southern Cone; the 1994 Cuban Rafter Crisis; femicides in Juárez, Mexico; the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico; and the rise of narcotrafficking as a violent and vigorous global business throughout the Americas. Latinx artists have responded to these crises by writing and developing innovative theatrical modes of representation about neoliberalism. Ybarra analyzes the work of playwrights María Irene Fornés, Cherríe Moraga, Michael John Garcés, Caridad Svich, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Victor Cazares, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, Tanya Saracho, and Octavio Solis. In addressing histories of oppression in their home countries, these playwrights have newly imagined affective political and economic ties in the Americas. They also have rethought the hallmark movements of Latin politics in the United States—cultural nationalism, third world solidarity, multiculturalism—and their many discontents.

Performance in the Borderlands

Performance in the Borderlands
Author: R. Rivera-Servera
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2010-11-17
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0230294553

A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome and crossed; motivates bodies to climb over; and threatens physical harm. This book critically examines a range of cultural performances produced in relation to the tensions and movements of/about the borders dividing North America, including the Caribbean.

Havana is Waiting and Other Plays

Havana is Waiting and Other Plays
Author: Eduardo Machado
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2011-06-14
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1559366605

“The existential pain of exile, the confusions of sexual identity and the complex legacies of the Cuban revolution are predominant [in] Mr. Machado’s writing,” –The New York Times Eduardo Machado explores his lifelong themes with humor and passion in Havana Is Waiting (a writer returns to Cuba after thirty years), Kissing Fidel (a comedy set in Miami funeral parlor), The Cook (chronicling Cuban history), and Crocodile Eyes (inspired by Federico García Lorca). Eduardo Machado is the author of more than forty plays. Born in Cuba, his plays have been widely performed. He is artistic director of INTAR Theatre and head of playwriting at New York University.

Conversations with Anne

Conversations with Anne
Author: Anne Bogart
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2012-04-03
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1559363754

Remarkable conversations you want to listen in on.

If I Die in Ju‡rez

If I Die in Ju‡rez
Author: Stella Pope Duarte
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2008
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780816526673

Duarte's latest novel is based on a string of real-life murders in Ciudad Jurez in the 1990s. Forced out of the house by her alcoholic mother, 13-year-old Evita takes to the streets, glimpsing newspaper columns about the murders, while struggling to survive. Petra, Evita's comely 19-year-old cousin, exchanges the country life for gritty Jurez to raise money for her ailing father. An acquaintance of Petra, Mayela, a 12-year-old Tarahumara Indian, lives in an orphanage where her artistic talent is discovered.

Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba

Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba
Author: Ruth Behar
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2015-11-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0472036637

An anthology by Cuban and Cuban-American writers, artists, and scholars celebrating a new era of restored relations between Cuba and the U.S.

Embodied Economies

Embodied Economies
Author: Israel Reyes
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2022-05-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1978827857

Embodied Economies compares works of Latinx Caribbean fiction and theater that explore the pitfalls and successes of economic upward mobility in diasporic communities. Each chapter compares two works in a counterpoint analysis that reveals the contradictions of using Latinx Caribbean culture to get ahead in the competitive fields of education, business, entertainment, and finance.

Theatre World 2005-2006: The Most Complete Record of the American Theatre

Theatre World 2005-2006: The Most Complete Record of the American Theatre
Author: John Willis
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2008-07-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781557837080

Now in its 62nd year, 'Theatre World' provides a complete statistical and pictorial record of the Broadway and off-Broadway theatre season. Each entry includes complete cast lists, producers and directors, authors and composers, opening dates, plot synopses, and biographical information.