Performance Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Cuban Theater

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12 - Performance Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Cuban Theater

from Part II - Cuban Literature’s Long Nineteenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 August 2024

Jill Lane

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Vicky Unruh and

Jacqueline Loss

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Vicky Unruh: Affiliation:
University of Kansas
Jacqueline Loss: Affiliation:
University of Connecticut

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Anchored in rich archival material, this chapter explores the diverse performance centers; dramatic genres; and key writers, actors, metamorphosing stock characters, and forms of humor that marked theater in Cuba’s long nineteenth century. Drawing on the growing diversity of Havana audiences for theatrical entertainment, interwoven with the stereotypes of ethnicity, race, and social class that often peppered theatrical genres, the chapter frames its detailed examples within the larger questions posed by a literary history, including whose theater history should be told and, in the context of the widely located political, economic, and commercial forces marking the island’s history, to which geographies and colonial or national temporalities its nineteenth-century theater history should belong.

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nineteenth-century Cuban theater and performance centers diversity of theater audiences and genres stock characters and humor theater and race/class stereotypes

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Information: The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature , pp. 200 - 214

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009168359.013 [Opens in a new window]

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Print publication year: 2024

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