{"product_id":"fronteras-americanas-american-borders-9780889227057","title":"Fronteras Americanas: American Borders","description":"Fuelled by equal parts outrage, intelligence, and wit, \u003ci\u003eFronteras Americanas\u003c\/i\u003e recreates one person's struggle to construct a home between two cultures, while exploding the images and constructs built up around Latinos and Latin America. This one-person play works through bold juxtapositions and satiric reference points: Sim n Bol var and Speedy Gonzales; Columbus and Fodor's travel guides; Ricky Ricardo and the Latin Lover; \u003ci\u003eLa Bamba\u003c\/i\u003e and Placido Domingo; Carlos Fuentes and American drug-war movies. Verdecchia twirls stereotypes and clich s, offers comparative histories, examines myths and mysticism, and provides lessons in language and dancing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHowever, even as the ungovernable and surrealistic Fecundo Morales Secundo, or \"Wideload,\" edifies us about how sex between a \"Latin\" and a \"Saxon\" can be \"a mind-expanding and culturally enriching experience,\" eloquently quoting Octavio Paz and Federico Garc a Lorca in direct response to contemporary struggles and injustices, he also transcends his role of \"\u003ci\u003eestereotype\u003c\/i\u003e,\" reaching a place beyond maps that are only metaphors where borders are more than divisions between countries and take on the most outlandish properties. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Verdecchia's preface to the new edition, when examining his reasons for bringing forth a \"refried\" form of \u003ci\u003eFronteras Americanas\u003c\/i\u003e in the 21st century, he indicates: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere are, after all, people all over the globe living, crossing, resisting, defining, and defending linguistic, cultural, racial, gender, psycho- geographical, cartographic, political and other borders. While the world has changed in many ways since I first wrote and performed it, the processes of migration, displacement, and globalization that informed the play's creation have only accelerated. Some of us may lead more networked lives now, but the Border is alive and well and living all over the globe.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCast of 1 man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Talonbooks - Talonbooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/29\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780889227057\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.20d","brand":"Guillermo Verdecchia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39816210055349,"sku":"9780889227057","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_5a28964f-0cd5-4d7d-850e-d22720a46475.jpg?v=1618925021","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/fronteras-americanas-american-borders-9780889227057","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}