Abstract
This Independent Study focuses on the interviews I conducted of undocumented Latina women in Chicago. I analyzed the interviews along with researching the sociocultural context to discuss the challenges they navigate in their everyday lives. The interviews and the sociocultural context are then utilized to devise a performance. Through the analysis of Victor Turners theory, performing ethnography, along with theatre scholars of Augusto Boal and Jan Cohen-Cruz, discusses the significance of story telling and the mechanism of using the interviews as an essential tool in understanding a social or cultural group. Other performance works done by Anna Devere Smith, E. Patrick Johnson and Tectonic Theatre Project, the techniques they offer will be used in order to explain the choices I made when devising my performance. The overall end product of this I.S. is my production titled “No Estoy Aquí” presented at Shoolroy Theatre at the College of Wooster.
Advisor
Noriega, Jimmy
Second Advisor
Frese, Pamela
Department
Sociology and Anthropology; Theatre and Dance
Recommended Citation
Castrejon, Stephanie, "Yo Soy Una Mujer, Yo Soy Latina, Now you see my life in the U.S.: Testimonies of Undocumented Latina Women, A Navigation of their everyday lives through a Devised Performance" (2016). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 7182.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/7182
Disciplines
Other Theatre and Performance Studies | Social and Cultural Anthropology
Publication Date
2016
Degree Granted
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type
Senior Independent Study Thesis
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