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This chapter looks at another origin of theater found in Christianity in order to appropriate and challenge religious myths that have laid the foundations for theater in the Hispanic Caribbean. La noche (1994) by Cuban Abilio Estévez, ¡Hágase la mujer! (1987) by Juan Carlos Campos from the Dominican Republic, and De tanto caminar: Auto alegórico en tres cuadros (1961) by Puerto Rican Piri Fernández uses Christian myths and imagery to interrogate the creation of a spectacle and the integration of doubt into personal and national identity in the twentieth-century Caribbean.
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Ford, K. (2017). Returning to the Origins: The Use of Christianity in Spanish Caribbean Theater. In: The Theater of Revisions in the Hispanic Caribbean. New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63381-7_4
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