Identities on stage and staging identities: ChicanoBrujo performances as emancipatory practices

Text and Performance Quarterly

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 58-83

  Holling, Michelle A ^a   Calafell, Bernadette Marie ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicana o; Decolonial Performance Practice; Guillermo G mez Pe a; Identity; Richard Montoya

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958596496     PISSN: 10462937     EISSN: 14795760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10462930601046053     Document Type: Article

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