Guillermo gomez pena biography of william shakespeare
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“Th’oppressor’s wrong,” or, what’s Hamlet to the Borderlands?
Perhaps more than any other character in any other play in the Western canon, the titular Danish prince in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet has long been held up by critics as the “universal human”—the mirror in which we should all see ourselves reflected. As Ian Smith astutely notes, however, much of the commentary on the play has uncritically normalized and privileged white male concerns, thus participating in “the open secret of dominant white culture” and perpetuating the notion that white anglophone texts speak to and for everyone (Smith 2016, p. 105). In this article, I focus on the contexts and concerns of two performance poems that actively challenge the cultural hegemony Hamlet has come to represent: “El Hamlet Fronterizo” by Mexican/Chicano performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña and “To be a pocha or not to be” by Iris De Anda, a Los Angeles–based writer and activist of Mexican and Salvadoran descent.Footnote 1 Each in their own way, these poet-performers seize the dramatic, rhetorical, and ontological functions of Hamlet’s famous “To be or not to be” soliloquy to express the distinctly nonwhite subjectivities of the US–Mexico Borderlands and to reckon with the ongoing colonization, linguistic terrorism
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Wednesday Dec 1, 2010 5PM
Kresge Theater, College of Slim Arts
Guillermo Gómez-Peña
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Susana Baca is the foremost singer of Afro-Peruvian music. Her music, on Luaka Bop lable, has promoted an awareness of the many cultural contributions of African-Peruvians. Also to this aim, she and her husband Ricardo Pereira are the founders and co-directors of the Instituto Negrocontinuo in Lima.
Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a writer and performance artist. He was born in Mexico and came to the U.S. in 1978. Since then, he has been researching issues such as the border and trans-cultural identity. Through journalism, performance, radio, video, poetry and installations, Gomez-Peña has looked into the relationship between Latinos and the U.S. From 1984 to 1990, he founded and participated in the "Taller de Arte Fronterizo" and contributed to the public national radio show "Crossroads." Lately he has been one of the editors of "High Performance" and "Drama Review" magazines. He has been awarded with the Prix de la parole at the Festival Internacional de las Américas (1989), a Bessie in New York (1989) and a fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation (1991) among others. He is the author of "Warrior for Gringostroika" published by Graywolf Press in 1993. His book "The New W