Bixler (Spanish, Virginia Polytechnic and State U.) and Seda (Spanish, U. of Connecticut) present 14 essays exploring the symbolism, sociohistorical meanings, and discursive formations in
recent Latin American and US Latino performing arts, offering new perspectives on questions of genre, gender, race, identity, history, and politics and addressing--through the unifying theme of
"trans/acting"--issues of transgression, transculturation, transference, transnationalism, transgender, transgenre, translocation, and transformation in a variety of performance and dramaturgy
genres as found in Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Cuba, and the US Latino community. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
