Performing Culture, Performing Me: Exploring Textual Power through Rehearsal and Performance
Description:
This thesis project explores Chicana feminist Gloria Anzaldúa's notion of a new mestiza consciousness, in which the marginalized ethnic American woman transcends her Otherness, breaks down the borders between her different identities, and creates a Thirdspace. Through the rehearsal and performance process, three ethnic American women employed Robert Scholes' model of textuality-the consumption and production of texts-as a framework to construct a new mestiza consciousness, and create a Thirdspa…
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Date:
December 2005
Creator:
Gonzales, Melinda Arteaga
Partner:
UNT Libraries