Exploring Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality in Four Spanish Plays

A Crisis of Identity

Beth Ann Bernstein (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-2054-5 (ISBN)

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A Crisis of Identity explores the construction of identity and society’s influence in four Spanish plays and discusses parallels to these works in popular culture. Through close reading and analysis covering race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, the author uncovers what lies behind the mask of each play's characters.

Exploring Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality in Four Spanish Plays explores society’s influence on identity in Spanish theatrical works and discusses parallels to these works in contemporary popular culture. The Spanish plays El retablo de las maravillas (The Marvelous Puppet Show) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1615), Virtudes vencen señales (Virtues overcome Signs) by Vélez de Guevara (1620), El público (The Audience) by Federico García Lorca (1929), and La llamada de Lauren (Lauren’s Call) by Paloma Pedrero (1985) all deal with characters in the midst of a crisis of identity. Using an eclectic approach supported by contemporary theories of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, the author analyzes the four plays in terms of identity and shows how society imposes the construction of identity. As the characters reach to define themselves, internal and external pressures guide them in interpreting acceptable behavior. This book offers a close reading of the psychological struggle of each character driven by society to cover their differences with a symbolic mask which, if donned, will eventually devour their true identity.

Beth Ann Bernstein is senior lecturer of Spanish in the department of world languages and literatures at Texas State University.

Introduction

Chapter 1: Marvelous Illusions: The Issue of pureza de sangre and Ethnic Identity in El retablo de las maravillas

Chapter 2: A “Monstrous” Problem: Examining Issues of Race in Virtudes vencen señales

Chapter 3: Struggling with the Mask of Conformity: Desire and Sexual Identity in El público

Chapter 4: Living Beyond the Binary: Questioning Socially Accepted Gender Roles in La llamada de Lauren

Conclusion: Shifting Identities in Four Spanish Plays and Parallels in Modern Popular Culture

Erscheinungsdatum	05.07.2021
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 240 mm
Gewicht	458 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-7936-2054-7 / 1793620547
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-2054-5 / 9781793620545
Zustand	Neuware