One-Act Mexican Theater

This course surveys contemporary one-act Mexican theater focusing on the theatrical devices, trends, and discourses adopted by playwrights to explore conflictive issues in Mexican society and culture: urban violence, generational clashes within the family, sexual diversity, gender roles, consumerism, among others. The course offers an introduction to the study of drama and the analysis of theatrical signs, and it attempts to complement the students' term abroad experience in Mexico by focusing on and contextualizing linguistic and cultural aspects in the texts. Students read texts by Emilio Carballido, Victor Hugo Rascon Banda, Sabina Berman, Hugo Salcedo, among others.