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"Zoot Suit" ( Luis Valdez )
Analytical Essay # 22466
"Zoot Suit" ( Luis Valdez )
A sociopolitical critique of the play on Chicano cultural identity in 1943.
2,250 words (approx. 9 pages) |
13 sources |
1995
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"In his musical drama Zoot Suit, playwright Luis Valdez fashions a theatrical experience around two dramatic elements: the historical event of the "Zoot Suit Riots" of 1943 and the commanding image of an icon-like narrator called "El Pachuco." The first is a largely-overlooked historical occurrence of blatant anti-Chicano racism that happened in Los Angeles during World War II. The second, El Pachuco, is a dramatic creation designed to combat the image of the stereotypical Chicano by overstereotyping. Valdez utilizes the Bertolt Brecht-influenced formula of the 1930s' "Living Newspaper" to recreate Zoot Suit's historical events in a presentational, agit-prop style (Huerta 15). In such a style, according to Mordecai Gorelik in New Theatres for Old, "Theatre is a tribunal" (378). That is, it is a deliberate "trial" wherein the playwright is the prosecutor ..."More papers on "Zoot Suit" ( Luis Valdez ):
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