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 plays and playwrights of the 1980s and 1990s. This ambitious work seeks to explore thematic links among text-based performances of drama by, for, and about Chicana/os (U.S.-born Mexican Americans sensitive to an oppressive history) and, to a lesser degree, "Mechicana/os" (those born in Mexico but resident in the United States). As such, it is a very useful addition to the scholarship in an under-represented field. Combining literary analysis and performance theory—with emphasis on the former—it attempts to locate a "Chicana/o mythos" rooted in "a Mexico of indigenous symbols, of pyramids and poetry: flor y canto, flower and song" (183)

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