Cecilia Josephine Aragón. Borderlands Children’s Theatre: Historical Developments and Emergence of Chicana/o/Mexican-American Youth Theatre
Cecilia Josephine Aragón. Borderlands Children’s Theatre: Historical Developments and Emergence of Chicana/o/Mexican-American Youth Theatre

Summary/Abstract: Cecilia Josephine Aragón’s Borderlands Children’s Theatre: Historical Developments and Emergence of Chicana/o/Mexican-American Youth Theatre brings together several increasingly prominent research agendas in contemporary theatre studies, such as theatre for young audiences (TYA) (Brenner et al., 2021; Gallagher, 2022; Busby et al., 2024), borderlands theatre (Moreno, 2015), and Latinx theatre (Boffone et al., 2022), alongside numerous other explorations of the medium as a vehicle for self-representation, community building, and political critique within various marginalized settings. Beyond these intersecting branches of theatre studies, Aragón’s book is firmly rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), particularly in its theorization of the psychosocial condition of inhabiting the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and its articulation of the “new mestiza” as a transformative figure.

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