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[Hopeless]

Valdez started the Teatro Campesino (Farmworker's Theater), and with it initiated the renaissance Mexican American theater. The Teatro Campesino had an avowedly political purpose to rally campasinos (farmworkers) in support of the farm workers' strike then being organized by Cesar Chavez Valdez' dramatic presentations, called actos, spoke to a campesino audience and addressed topics and themes directly related to the strike. Valdez' early actos were composed

of a series of scenes about the strike experience acted by campesino volunteers. His later actos were presented by a newly constituted professional company still called the Tearro Campesino, and addressed such themes as the impact of the Vietnam War on Mexican Americans and the dangers of assimilation, themes relevant to urban Mexican Americans as well

as to campesinos. All Valdez' actos contained elements of song and dance, relied little on stage effects or props and featured the use of masks. These dramatic elements, along with an intensely social or political purpose and the use of a mixture of Spanish, English, and Mexican American dialects in the dialogues, which realistically capture the flavor of Mexican American conversation, are still characteristic both of the acto and of most other forms of Mexican American theater today. Innovative as it is, the acto owes much to the theater traditions of other periods and regions. Like early Spanish American religious dramas, secular folk dramas, and the Mexican carpas of a somewhat later period actos are usually performed outdoors by traveling groups of players or by local theater groups. The improvised comic satire of the actos is often

attributed to Valdez' study of the Italian commedia dell'arte of the sixteenth century, although some critics see it as a direct reflection of the more contemporary and local carpas of Mexican theater. The Italian influence is likely whatever Valdez' immediate source: the Mexican carpas themselves are said to have originated from the theater pieces of a sixteenth-century Spanish writer inspired by encounters with Italian commedia dell ante troupes on tour in Spain. The English-language theater has provided elements as well: Valdez himself has acknowledged his debt to the agitprop socialist theater that appeared in the United States during the 1920's and 1930's. In particular, his acres contain the same assortment of semiallegorical characters and the same blend of music, chorus, and dialogue found in some of the agitprop pieces, as well as the same fierce spirit of social and political critique. Finally, many of Valdez' later theater pieces freely incorporate characters, plots, and symbols drawn from the indigenous myths and ritual of the pre-Hispanic peoples of Latin American. In fact, no other art form illustrates more clearly the

depth and complexity of the Mexican American heritage itself than does the acto of Luis Valdez and the Teatro Campesino.

 

 

***The passage suggests that which of the following explains the characteristic use of a mixture of Spanish, English, and Mexican American dialects in the works of Mexican American

playwrights?

 

(A) Mexican American playwrights wish to include in their works elements drawn

from the traditions and history of preHispanic America.

 

(B) Mexican American playwrights try to guarantee that their works are fully understood by the broadest possible audience, including those who may speak only one language.

 

© Such a linguistic mix faithfully reflects the linguistic diversity of Mexican American culture, and is easily understood by most Mexican Americans.

 

(D) Many Mexican American playwrights are quite familiar with both the Spanish language and the English-language theater traditions.

 

(E) Many different languages are still spoken within the confines of the United States,

although English is still the most common first language of its citizens.

 

***Which of the following, if true. most strongthens the author's argument concerning the debt of the acto to the theater traditions of other periods and regions?

 

(A) Many popular forms of theater rely heavily on improvisation

(B) Plays resembling the acto in structure were written in the 1970's by West African playwrights who are interested in dramatizing the richness of their own cultures.

 

© The use of masks has, at one time or another, been characteristic of the theater traditions of almost all cultures, even those most isolated from outside influences.

 

(D) During a strike, it is common for union members to present musical skits dramatizing the values of solidarity and resistance.

 

(E) Before 1965 Luis Valdez had attended many performances of traditional Mexican theater groups touring the western United States.

[kar]

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[kar]

Is it E? i feel so! if anyone gets it please explain

[Hopeless]

Hi kar,

Is your answer E is for second question? What about the another one?

 

Thanks.

[kanika]

Is the answer for the first one A and second one E

[Hopeless]

1> c

2> e

[kanika]

yes my mistake the answer is C as

These dramatic elements, along with an intensely social or political purpose and the use of a mixture of Spanish, English, and Mexican American dialects in the dialogues, which realistically capture the flavor of Mexican American conversation, are still characteristic both of the acto and of most other forms of Mexican American theater today

 

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