Silvia Gonzalez S. and The Migrant Farmworker's Son

Silvia Gonzalez S. and The Migrant Farmworker's Son

Gonzalez S., Silvia -- The Migrant Farmworker's Son
Chicano movement -- United States
Mexican American theater
Hispanic American women in literature
Immigrant Assimilation -- United States

The daughter of immigrants from Mexico, Silvia Gonzalez S. (Scherer) was born in San Fernando, CA, and grew up in the barrio of Pacoima, near Los Angeles. Her plays include Boxcar, the 1989 winner at the Multicultural Playwright's Festival with the Seattle Group Theatre, Alicia in Wonder Tierra (or, I Can't Eat Goat Head), Don't Promise, Los Matadores, U Got the Look, and Waiting Women. One of her lesser known plays, The Migrant Farmworker's Son, explores tensions in the family of a man and his wife who emigrated from Mexico to Arizona in the hopes of finding a better life. We see Henry, the teenage son, dealing with questions and issues inherent in the challenge of living in dual cultures.

Sylvia Gonzalez S.

Box 4, Folder 4, "The Migrant Farmworker's Son, 2 Jul 1990", Sylvia Gonzelez S. Papers, 1982-1994. Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin

1990-07-02

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