(Ef)Facing the Face of Nationalism: Wrestling Masks in Chicano and Mexican Performance Art

Masks serve as particularly effective props in contemporary Mexican and Chicano performance art because of a number of deeply rooted traditions in Mexican culture. This essay explores the mask as code of honor in Mexican culture, and foregrounds the manner in which a number of contemporary Mexican a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robert Neustadt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 2001-06-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol25/iss2/6