Tamara L Underiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 645367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamara L Underiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamara L |
| FAMILY NAME | Underiner |
| SIGNATURE | UNDERINER T L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tamara Underiner is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Arizona State University's School of Theatre and Film, where she also directs the PhD concentration in Theatre and Performance of the Americas. She is the author of Contemporary Theatre in Mayan Mexico: Death-Defying Acts (University of Texas Press, 2004), and has published on indigenous and Latina/o theatre and critical pedagogy in Theatre Journal, Signs, and critical anthologies from the University of Arizona and Routledge... |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Playing at Border Crossing in a Mexican Indigenous Community…Seriously
Deep within Mexico, an indigenous community offers tourists the chance to take on the roles of immigrants in a simulated border crossing experience, opening itself to charges that it is a “training camp” for illegal immigration to the United States. On the contrary, it functions as a highly politicized community performance aimed at cultural preservation and assertion, which are both threatened and enabled by the scenario of migration
Rabinal Achi
Reviewed by: Rabinal Achi: A Mayan Drama of War and Sacrifice Tamara Underiner Rabinal Achi: A Mayan Drama of War and Sacrifice. Translated and interpreted by Dennis Tedlock. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003; pp. x + 361. $35.00. Dennis Tedlock's translation of the Rabinal Achí provides an extraordinarily well-researched new English-language version of the only scripted record of a pre-Columbian dance drama. This drama recounts historical …
Notes from the Ivory Labyrinth of Solitude
Chicano Drama
Jorge Huerta's Chicano Drama: Performance, Society and Myth, is part of his ongoing project to chronicle developments and trends in Chicana/o theatre. This volume picks up where his last, Chicano Theater: Themes and Forms (1982), left off—roughly with the Broadway production of Zoot Suit in 1979, although he re-covers some familiar territory from the earlier book in order to provide historical and biographical context for the present focus on pla…
Beyond Recognition, Beholden
Incidents of Theatre in Chiapas, Tabasco, and Yucatan
In a public square in San Crist?bal de las Casas, Chiapas a masked, robed figure appears in front of a makeshift proscenium. To a casual observer, this figure looks like a Spanish missionary from the 16th century. It actually represents the Mayan Earth Lord, in a play about the origins of the Zapatista uprising, staged by a local Mayan theatre troupe. The play has also been staged in the Lacandon jungle and for crowds of international observers i…
Incidents of Theatre in Chiapas, Tabasco, and Yucatan
In a public square in San Crist?bal de las Casas, Chiapas a masked, robed figure appears in front of a makeshift proscenium. To a casual observer, this figure looks like a Spanish missionary from the 16th century. It actually represents the Mayan Earth Lord, in a play about the origins of the Zapatista uprising, staged by a local Mayan theatre troupe. The play has also been staged in the Lacandon jungle and for crowds of international observers i…
Incidents of Theatre in Chiapas, Tabasco, and Yucatan
In a public square in San Crist?bal de las Casas, Chiapas a masked, robed figure appears in front of a makeshift proscenium. To a casual observer, this figure looks like a Spanish missionary from the 16th century. It actually represents the Mayan Earth Lord, in a play about the origins of the Zapatista uprising, staged by a local Mayan theatre troupe. The play has also been staged in the Lacandon jungle and for crowds of international observers i…
Beyond Recognition, Beholden
Chicano Drama
Jorge Huerta's Chicano Drama: Performance, Society and Myth, is part of his ongoing project to chronicle developments and trends in Chicana/o theatre. This volume picks up where his last, Chicano Theater: Themes and Forms (1982), left off—roughly with the Broadway production of Zoot Suit in 1979, although he re-covers some familiar territory from the earlier book in order to provide historical and biographical context for the present focus on pla…
Rabinal Achi
Reviewed by: Rabinal Achi: A Mayan Drama of War and Sacrifice Tamara Underiner Rabinal Achi: A Mayan Drama of War and Sacrifice. Translated and interpreted by Dennis Tedlock. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003; pp. x + 361. $35.00. Dennis Tedlock's translation of the Rabinal Achí provides an extraordinarily well-researched new English-language version of the only scripted record of a pre-Columbian dance drama. This drama recounts historical …
Notes from the Ivory Labyrinth of Solitude
Playing at Border Crossing in a Mexican Indigenous Community…Seriously
Deep within Mexico, an indigenous community offers tourists the chance to take on the roles of immigrants in a simulated border crossing experience, opening itself to charges that it is a “training camp” for illegal immigration to the United States. On the contrary, it functions as a highly politicized community performance aimed at cultural preservation and assertion, which are both threatened and enabled by the scenario of migration
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