Theatre practitioner and scholar, Eugenio Barba has spent much of his professional life questioning what is known and asking what is unknown. His instinct to look beyond his cultural norms propelled him and his students to obtain knowledge of other me . . .

My paper examines John Rollin Ridge's 1854 novel, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, which was the first published novel written by a Native American author. The story details the life of the infamous, fictionalized Mexican-American bandit, J . . .