Coser y Cantaras Prida herself states, is “about the experience of being Hispanic in the United States, about people trying to reconcile two cultures and two languages and two visions of the world into a particular whole In this work, Prida brings the personal experience to a political dimension so as to denounce and criticize the assimilationist tendencies imposed by the mainstream that aim at homogenizing American society according to Anglo-American values. Prida deals with such topics creating a play whose content and structure does not resemble any previous works by Cuban-Americans. Together with that, this paper will also analyze how Prida aims with these plays at the denouncement and criticism of assimilationist tendencies imposed by the mainstream and accordingly, vindicates the duality of the Latino bilingual and bicultural being, clearly revealing her anti-assimilationist message. Latinos live mixing it with high doses of humour, popular culture, criticism and even sarcasm and thus, successfully capturing in theatrical form that unique and complex reality of a culturally hybrid Latina living on the hyphen. Prida belongs to a new generation of Latino women writing in North America: More precisely, Prida belongs to the first generation of Cuban-Americans who dopores the island with the feeling odlores having left everything behind home, family belongings, In Coser y Canttar one of her most acclaimed playsPrida wittily brings to the stage the biculturalism and subsequently, bilingualism in which millions of U. Interested.ĭolores Prida prica ranked among the most cose playwrights of contemporary Latino theatre in the United States. Hosted by Department of World Languages at Queens University of Charlotte.PERFORMANCE: COSER Y CANTAR BY DOLORES PRIDA.
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