{"product_id":"plays-of-josefina-niggli-recovered-landmarks-of-latino-literature-9780299224547","title":"Plays of Josefina Niggli: Recovered Landmarks of Latino Literature","description":"Winner of the 2002 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, this collection explores the gestures of hurtfulness and compassion. Whether set in a shelter for battered women, in the midst of a political demonstration, or at the centre of an orchestra, the poems pursue the place of language in an injurous world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJosefina 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 at Western Carolina University, where a campus theater is named for her. 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872515494162,"sku":"9780299224547","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f1ca633a-580a-4482-a925-bf7140e8607a.jpg?v=1737900232","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/plays-of-josefina-niggli-recovered-landmarks-of-latino-literature-9780299224547","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}