"Puto: Plays offers a comprehensive exploration of Ricardo A. Brachos groundbreaking contributions to contemporary theatre. Brachos work, characterized by its dialectical innovations and radical ideological critique, centers on queer, immigrant, and proletarian Black and Brown characters, challenging societal norms through Marxist critiques of Chicano nationalism, intersectionality, and queer theory. His plays, such as The Sweetest Hangover, El Santo Joto, and Puto, function as staged essays, addressing themes of class conflict, racial antagonism, and global capitalism. The collection includes Ni Madre, a science fiction chamber play reimagining the figure of La Malinche, and Mexican Psychotic, which dramatizes the life of outsider artist Martín Ramírez. Appetites I Have Inherited critiques Hollywoods racial and sexual stereotypes, while Sissy redefines Chicano family narratives through a queer, coming-of-age tale set in a Marxist-Leninist home in Los Angeles. Puto envisions a dystopian Los Angeles grappling with militarized borders and class warfare, and A Black and a Brown captures the intimacy and solidarity of queer love during the Black Lives Matter protests. Puto: Plays makes Brachos key works available to a broader public for the first time, with a foreword by Brachos teacher and iconic Chicana poet Cherríe Moraga, a critical introduction by Jennifer Ponce de León, Richard T.

Rodríguez, and Randall Williams, as well as an afterword by& Juana María Rodríguez"-- Provided by publisher.