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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Martha Duffy, Jose M. Ferrer III, Russ Hoyle, Walter Isaacson, James Kelly, Donald Morrison, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, George M. Taber, Claudia Wallis, Robert T. Zintl...
...leading Hispanic writers are joined by a diversity of other developing talents, including Jose Rivera (The Promise), Lynne Alvarez (The Wonderful Tower of Humbert Lavoignet), Reuben Gonzalez (The Boiler Room) and Romolo Arellano (Tito). Like the black writers of a generation ago, the Hispanics seem to be moving beyond an initial preoccupation with anger, self-pity and reductionist politics toward a stage literature that communicates rather than confronts, that reaches for universality and yet portrays people individually. Enriching the American dramatic vocabulary with Latin techniques and traditions, these new playwrights also emulate their U.S. forebears: as in the heritage stretching...
...Jose Donoso...
PUBLISHED nearly 15 years after the Chilean coup that replaced Salvador Allende's democratically elected government with a military regime, Jose Donoso's Curfew explores the harsh realities that comprise life for the millions of citizens surviving under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. A grim portrait of terror, machine guns, armored trucks and unresolved murders, Curfew presents the life of those protesting the Pinochet government, and criticizes not only the mechanisms of the government but also the solutions of the Left...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Martha Duffy, Jose M. Ferrer III, Russ Hoyle, Walter Isaacson, James Kelly, Donald Morrison, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, George M. Taber, Claudia Wallis, Robert T. Zintl...