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Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism traces how Latinx theater in the United States has engaged with the policies, procedures, and outcomes of neoliberal economics in the Americas from the 1970s to the present. Patricia Ybarra examines IMF interventions, NAFTA, shifts in immigration policy, the escalation of border industrialization initiatives, and austerity programs. She demonstrates how these policies have created the conditions for many of the most tumultuous events in the Americas in the last forty years, including dictatorships in the Southern Cone; the 1994 Cuban Rafter Crisis; femicides in Juárez, Mexico; the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico; and the rise of narcotrafficking as a violent and vigorous global business throughout the Americas. Latinx artists have responded to these crises by writing and developing innovative theatrical modes of representation about neoliberalism. Ybarra analyzes the work of playwrights María Irene Fornés, Cherríe Moraga, Michael John Garcés, Caridad Svich, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Victor Cazares, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, Tanya Saracho, and Octavio Solis. In addressing histories of oppression in their home countries, these playwrights have newly imagined affective political and economic ties in the Americas. They also have rethought the hallmark movements of Latino politics in the United States—cultural nationalism, third world solidarity, multiculturalism—and their many discontents.

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Beautifully written, brilliantly conceptualized, informative at every turn; in short it is convincing and extraordinary Latinx Theater is the most interesting analyses of neoliberalism and hemispheric culture that I have read. Given its trenchant and provocative theorizing of political economy, Latinx Theater will shape the field performance studies more broadly for the next generation. - Mary Brady, author of Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space

Beautifully written, brilliantly conceptualized, informative at every turn; in short it is convincing and extraordinary Latinx Theater is the most interesting analyses of neoliberalism and hemispheric culture that I have read. Given its trenchant and provocative theorizing of political economy, Latinx Theater will shape the field performance studies more broadly for the next generation. - Mary Brady, author of Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space

Beautifully written, brilliantly conceptualized, informative at every turn; in short it is convincing and extraordinary Latinx Theater is the most interesting analyses of neoliberalism and hemispheric culture that I have read. Given its trenchant and provocative theorizing of political economy, Latinx Theater will shape the field performance studies more broadly for the next generation."""" - Mary Brady, author of Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space

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Patricia A. Ybarra is an associate professor of theater arts and performance studies and the author of Performing Conquest: Five Centuries of Theater, History, and Identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico. She has served as president of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE).

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