It takes the average reader 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Performances of Suffering in Latin American Migration by Ana Elena Puga
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This book questions the reliance on melodrama and spectacle in social performances and cultural productions by and about migrants from Mexico and Central America to the United States. Focusing on archetypal characters with nineteenth-century roots that recur in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries – heroic saviors, saintly mothers and struggling fathers, martyred children and rebellious youth – it shows how theater practitioners, filmmakers, visual artists, advocates, activists, journalists, and others who want to help migrants often create migrant melodramas, performances that depict...
Performances of Suffering in Latin American Migration by Ana Elena Puga is 372 pages long, and a total of 93,744 words.
This makes it 126% the length of the average book. It also has 115% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 32 minutes to read Performances of Suffering in Latin American Migration aloud.
Performances of Suffering in Latin American Migration is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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