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Plays of Josefina Niggli “Josefina Niggli's ghost haunts the fields of Mexican American and Chicana/o Studies, which have been uncomfortable with her exclusion but hesitant to embrace her fully.”–from the introduction Josefina Niggli (1910–1983) was one
of the most successful Mexican American writers of the early
twentieth century. Born of European parents and raised in Mexico,
she spent most of her adult life in the United States, and in
her plays and novels she aimed to portray authentic Mexican experiences
for English-speaking audiences. Niggli crossed borders, cultures,
and genres, and her life and work prompt interesting questions
about race, class, gender, modernity, ethnic and national identity,
and the formation of literary canons. “Padilla and Orchard have completed the formidable task of revitalizing the archive of Mexican American author Josefina Niggli, a writer whose production defies easy categorization but whose time has arrived thanks to the vicissitudes of cultural styles and newer rehearsals in Chicano-Latino literary history.”–Roberto Tejada, University of California, San Diego
William Orchard is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at the University of Chicago and was a Cesar Chavez Fellow at Dartmouth College. Yolanda Padilla is assistant professor in the Department of English and in the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.) Of Related Interest: |
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Josefina Niggli was
an accomplished playwright, novelist, screenwriter, and teacher.
She was associated with the San Antonio Little Theater, the Carolina
Playmakers, and the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. As a screenwriter,
she worked for Twentieth Century Fox and MGM, where she adapted
her novel Mexican Village for the screen. Niggli was a
faculty member at the University of North Carolina and at Western
Carolina University, where a campus theater is named for her.
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