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Jun 21, 2019
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This article provides guidance for the successful teaching of The Demon’s Nun (2003), by Petrona de la Cruz and Isabel Juárez Espinosa, founders of the association Empowerment of Mayan Women or FOMMA, to undergraduate students in upper-level Spanish courses. It focuses on the practice of theater as social change and offers a textual analysis. Along these lines, this essay includes the most recent bibliography on FOMMA, a detailed analysis of the drama techniques used by these Mayan playwrights, and it concludes with acting exercises.
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