Las dos caras del patroncito (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Luis Miguel Valdez
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Work: Play
- Genres: Drama
- Subjects: 1960’s, United States or Americans, Class conflict, Racism, Prejudices or antipathies, California, Farms, farmers, or farming, Migrant labor, Mexico or Mexicans, Grapes, Work or workers, Unions or unionism, Strikes or lockouts
- Locales: California
Las dos caras del patroncito (the two faces of the little boss) typifies, in many ways, Valdez's early actos. The piece grew out of a collaborative improvisation during the grape strike of 1965 and dramatized the immediate and intense feelings of its audience. Like all the actos, it is brief, direct, didactic, intending not only to express the workers’ anger and urge them to join the union but also to satirize the growers and reveal their injustice. The play succeeds brilliantly by enacting a total reversal of what Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche termed the...
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