Mid-term review of main topics in Redrawing the Map: Theater and Performance in the Americas. UCLA Winter 2010.

1. Hemispheric : Contact Zones, Comparative perspectives, Dialogue ≠ Classic Ethnography : Surveying “the other.” Us vs. Them Marcela Fuentes [email_address]

7. “ The stage for the theatre of the oppressed was set in the sixteenth century when the Spaniards watched their first indigenous performances.” (Taylor 22) Refracted optic as basis for definition and self-definition.

10. Decolonizing the Body “ Artifact Piece”- James Luna (1987)

11. Nation-building: breaking ties with colonial rule. Design your country. National make-up. The desired ones and the “undesirable”. Racial anxiety.

15. Struggle for independence. Need to define what will represent Cubanness. Cuba is colored. But not “of” the colored. Creto Gangá. Racial ventriloquism. Literary Blackface. Ethnographic burlesque. Mockery and linguistic experimentation. Bozal- Catedrático. Model: assimilation with boundaries. Mestizo culture but no real participation of Afro-Cubans.

17. Boston Tea Party. Rebels disguised as Indians. Start a revolution with tea. “ Playing Indian” (Redface) = Blackface to produce and maintain whiteness as central to the definition of U.S identity. Foundational ritual: playing Indian and drinking Chinese tea. Fuchs would ask: “What changes in the landscape of this world?” “Who has power on this planet?” “How is it achieved?” Enter APA Theater and Margaret Cho.

18. Bow Down to Your Asian Masters

19. 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors

20. Can one be or choose to be “transnational”? Add mix-raced, queer, multicultural, etc.

22. Multiculturalism. Development of new audiences. (289) Learning Shakespeare and Asian American Experience. Universalism and particular lives.