“An expansive analysis of recent Puerto Rican theater and a compelling critique of the role theater and art play in imagining and inspiring transformative political action. The author’s focus on pragmatic liberation underscores the limitations of the theater’s engagement with political discourse, as well as the indirect and decentralized forms of political action that have characterized PR decolonial activism . . . a significant contribution.”
— Israel Reyes, Dartmouth College
“This timely book explores how Puerto Rican playwrights are thinking through a practical politics in response to enduring colonialism, racism, and inequity. It serves as a meditation on the power of drama in producing theoretical reflections on political action; while at the same time it provides a genealogy of contemporary Puerto Rican diasporic drama. A welcome addition to literary studies of the Hispanic Caribbean diaspora, engaging with a genre that has generally been neglected.”
— Camilla Stevens, Rutgers University-New Brunswick