Latin American Women Dramatists - Theater, Texts, and Theories (Paperback)

"The book highlights the many possibilities of the innovative workof these dramatists, and this will, it is to be hoped, help the editors to achieveone of their other key goals: productions of the plays in English." -- TimesLiterary Supplement

"This thoughtfully crafted book with itsinsightful and informative studies elucidates an overlooked, essential component ofthe Latin American literary canon." -- Choice

Contributorsdiscuss 15 works of Latin-American playwrights, delineate the artistic lives ofwomen dramatists of the last half of the twentieth century -- from countries asdiverse as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela -- andhighlight the problems inherent in writing under politically repressivegovernments.