Self-study
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Into topic ·
Teatro Campesino theater company and Chicano theater movement
Valdez, who wanted to use theater for worker activism, connected with Chávez, a union leader for Mexican farm workers, and created the Teatro Campesino
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Origins of Chicano theater movement ·
Valdez created "actos" (skits) with striking farm workers
Note the analogy drawn between farm work and theater: author references "players" in the "drama" of fieldwork
Characteristics of actos ·
Satirical, propose solutions, and inspire to action
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Three perspectives ·
Theater historians', critic's, and author's
Theater historians say Valdez invented actos; critic Broyles-González says historians are wrong and the farm workers also deserve credit; and author says Broyles-González is right
Elaborate on origin of actos ·
Likely influenced by "carpas," an earlier form of satirical theater
Main point ·
Teatro Campesino's actos were a fusion of carpas and European-style theater thanks to the combined influences of farm works and Valdez
Passage Style
Critique or debate
Spotlight
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We have no evidence the author has any thoughts on what shaped carpas as a dramatic genre.
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We don’t know what the author thinks about the motives of the theater historians.
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Supported, because we know that the author agrees with Broyles-Gonzalez that
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The author doesn’t indicate that Valdez himself had acquaintance with carpas. Some participants in the Teatro had cultural links to carpas, but we don’t know whether Valdez himself did. Even if he did, we don’t know that the author agrees with Broyles-Gonzalez concerning the level of knowledge Valdez had about the carpas.
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We don’t know Broyles-Gonzalez’s opinion about European influence.