Essa pesquisa constrói uma reflexão sobre o trabalho de El Teatro Campesino, grupo fundado em 1965 na Califórnia com o objetivo de criar peças de agit-prop, chamadas de actos, que propunham discutir temas pertinentes à sociedade camponesa chicana. Dois actos, formulados a partir de criações coletivas, são analisados nessa tese: Quinta Temporada cujo tema central são as greves organizadas na década de 1960 pelo sindicato United Farm Workers (Trabalhadores Agrários Unidos), liderado por César Chávez, militante de enorme importância ao Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (Movimento pelos Direitos Civis dos Mexicano-Americanos) e Vietnam Campesino, marco do teatro militante norte-americano, que discute temas não só relativos à Guerra do Vietnã, mas também a inúmeras outras questões caras à comunidade chicana. Além dos actos, nossa pesquisa também analisa o musical Zoot Suit, de autoria individual de Luis Valdez, fundador do Teatro Campesino, e que alcançou grande projeção ao se tornar a primeira peça de temática chicana escrita por um chicano a ser produzida na Broadway. / This research analyses the work of El Teatro Campesino, a theater group founded in 1965 in California, in order to perform agit-prop plays, called actos. The actos aimed at discussing themes which were relevant to rural chicano society. Two collectivelly created actos are analyzed in this thesis: Quinta Temporada in which the central theme is the strikes organized in the 1960s by the United Farm Workers, conducted by César Chávez, a militant of great importance to the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam Campesino, a milestone of the North-American political theater, which discusses themes related not only to the Vietnam War, but also many other pertinent issues to chicano society. Besides the actos, our research also analyses the musical Zoot Suit, written by Luis Valdez, founder of the Teatro Campesino, which became widely known as the first play concerning chicano themes written by a chicano to be produced on Broadway.

Essa pesquisa constrói uma reflexão sobre o trabalho de El Teatro Campesino, grupo fundado em 1965 na Califórnia com o objetivo de criar peças de agit-prop, chamadas de actos, que propunham discutir temas pertinentes à sociedade camponesa chicana. Dois actos, formulados a partir de criações coletivas, são analisados nessa tese: Quinta Temporada cujo tema central são as greves organizadas na década de 1960 pelo sindicato United Farm Workers (Trabalhadores Agrários Unidos), liderado por César Chávez, militante de enorme importância ao Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (Movimento pelos Direitos Civis dos Mexicano-Americanos) e Vietnam Campesino, marco do teatro militante norte-americano, que discute temas não só relativos à Guerra do Vietnã, mas também a inúmeras outras questões caras à comunidade chicana. Além dos actos, nossa pesquisa também analisa o musical Zoot Suit, de autoria individual de Luis Valdez, fundador do Teatro Campesino, e que alcançou grande projeção ao se tornar a primeira peça de temática chicana escrita por um chicano a ser produzida na Broadway. / This research analyses the work of El Teatro Campesino, a theater group founded in 1965 in California, in order to perform agit-prop plays, called actos. The actos aimed at discussing themes which were relevant to rural chicano society. Two collectivelly created actos are analyzed in this thesis: Quinta Temporada in which the central theme is the strikes organized in the 1960s by the United Farm Workers, conducted by César Chávez, a militant of great importance to the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam Campesino, a milestone of the North-American political theater, which discusses themes related not only to the Vietnam War, but also many other pertinent issues to chicano society. Besides the actos, our research also analyses the musical Zoot Suit, written by Luis Valdez, founder of the Teatro Campesino, which became widely known as the first play concerning chicano themes written by a chicano to be produced on Broadway.

In this thesis, the emergence of pachucos and their later influence on Chicano movement ideology is examined. By visually challenging accepted racial identities, pachucos protested the discrimination of their time. Later on, Chicanos would take the figure of the pachuco and combine it with other aspects of Chicano ideology to form a synthesized symbol of resistance to inspire their fight for equal rights.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 233-241).

This study draws parallels between the dramatic works Rabinal Achí­, an anonymous ancient Mayan text, and the Luis Valdez masterpiece Zoot Suit. The parallel that I seek to establish is one of the strong trend of historical revisionism in both works as well as a parallel development of plot and characterization. This work does not claim to be representative of revisionism as a whole, nor does it seek to establish a new official history, but it does to demonstrate how both works, even though they are separated by hundreds of years, share a common bond of subversion and direct opposition to established norms and to the "facts" of a recorded official history in an attempt to give voice to the experience of the historically overlooked individual.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 315-339). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI Company.

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