The E-mail Address es you entered is are not in a valid format. Throughout the play, the two halves continually bicker, each trying to assume total control trying to impose their views about food, music and moral principles on the other. This is a clear political message against the mainstream assimilationist tendencies that Prida artfully manages to convey through this play coseer is a representation of the personal experience of any U.
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The subtitle of Coser y Cantar, “a One Act Bilingual Fantasy for Two Women”, already hints at its content since the play can be considered as Prida’s fantasy of what would be a possible theatrical representation of being a bicultural and bilingual woman, which is corroborated by Prida herself when asserting that “ deals with how to be a bilingual and bicultural woman in Manhattan and keep your sanity” “The Show Does Go on” The E-mail message field is required. The presence of two different cultures within the same person gives way to the abundance of cultural dichotomies in the text g function as a “polarizing comic device” Weiss dolkres What Prida is openly conveying with this representation of the personal experience of any bilingual Latina is her anti-assimilationist political message. With Coser y Cantar, Prida has successfully captured in theatrical form that unique and complex reality of living on the hyphen neither here nor there but simultaneously in both culturesa situation in which millions of Latinos live. University of Texas Press, Consequently, biculturalism as well as bilingualism have never before been so wittily and artfully brought to the stage so as to reject assimilation as in this play clearly revealing Prida’s mastery in dealing with one of the most relevant themes that cut across Latino life in the United States. Prida belongs to a new generation of Latino women writing in North America: Florida International University, Dolores Prida is ranked among the most important playwrights of contemporary Latino theatre in the United States. The specific requirements or preferences of your reviewing publisher, classroom teacher, institution or organization should be applied. However, it is not till the end, that the playwright gives a solution to this game. Therefore, she will explore the inner struggle within women caught between two cultures at the same time as she will try with her work to look for an emotional equilibrium between one culture and the other, and accordingly, perfectly reflecting the dual personality hence, the hybridity of a female Cuban exile belonging to the one-and-a-half generation 1. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. Please re-enter recipient e-mail address es. As has been proved throughout this paper, Coser y Cantar is a clear example of what happens to an immigrant who refuses to renounce the native culture and mother tongue in favour of the Anglo ones trying at all costs to keep attached to the dooores heritage of the place of origin so as not to feel alienated in a foreign world. Please choose whether or not you want other users to be able to see on your profile that this library is a favorite of yours.Īdvanced embedding details, examples, and help! By airing, not with existential despair but always humorously, some of the main problems any hybrid Latina has to face in everyday life double identity, assimilation, struggle for self-definition, alienation and loneliness among many othersPrida clearly arises as a spokesperson and the conscience of many Latinos living in similar situations to those portrayed in her play.Ĭoser y Cantaras Prida herself states, is “about the experience of being Hispanic in the United States, about people cantat to reconcile two cultures and two languages and two visions of the world into a particular whole You already recently rated this item. You may send this item to up to five recipients.
Scanner Internet Archive Python library 1. PERFORMANCE: COSER Y CANTAR BY DOLORES PRIDA Some features of WorldCat will not be available. Please create a new list with a new name move some items to a new or existing list or delete some items. Find a copy in the library Finding libraries that hold this item The play begins with the apartment in which “Ella” and “She” live divided into “two ethnic territories, one for each character” Sandoval that represent the two different cultural parts of the consciousness of any bicultural and therefore, hybrid Latina. Hosted by Department of World Languages at Queens University of Charlotte.PERFORMANCE: COSER Y CANTAR BY DOLORES PRIDA.
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