El Teatro Campesino: Theater in the Chicano Movement Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	El Teatro Campesino and the Mexican Popular Performance Tradition	3
	Oral Tradition: Human Memory, the Body, Community	7
	The Political Economy of Chicana/o Comedy	23
	Rasquachi Performance Aesthetic and Historical Memory	35
	El Teatro Campesino and Mexican Sacroprofane Performance Genres	58
2	Theater of the Sphere: Toward the Formulation of a Native Performance Theory and Practice	79
	On Formulating an Indigenous Alternative Performance Aesthetic	79
	Theater of the Sphere: Affirming the Chicana/o Axis	84
	The Formation of the Spherical Actor: A New Chicana/o Humanism	90
	Theater of the Sphere: The Twenty Steps	95
	Theater of the Sphere: The World of Performance	108
	Theater of the Sphere: Liberation or Mystification?	119
3	Toward a Re-Vision of Chicana/o Theater History: The Roles of Women in El Teatro Campesino	129
	Introduction	129
	The Roles of Women in El Teatro Campesino	135
	Breaking the Mold: Creating New Pathways	148
	An Epilogue: Chicanas Onstage in the 1980s	153
4	El Teatro Campesino: From Alternative Theater to Mainstream	165
	Introduction	165
	El Teatro Campesino in the Mainstream	170
	Rose of the Rancho: Validating Chicana/o Oppression	174
	The New Professionalism: Zoot Suit in the Mainstream	177
	Chicanas/os on Broadway: To Be or Not to Be?	205
	Zoot Suit: The Film	208
	Mainstreaming and the Dissolution of the Teatro Campesino Ensemble	214
	Conclusion: Whither El Teatro Campesino?	235
	Chronology	241
	Notes	247
	Bibliography	255
	Index	267