The Aesthetics of Minor Transnationalism in the Theater of Frank Disla

This essay argues that the search for a new audience, for new stories, and for a new aesthetics in the theater of Frank Disla is emblematic of the dialogue transnational Dominican theater practitioners have begun with the national “script” for Dominican culture and identity. I suggest that the insistent formal experimentation in plays about migration by Disla is suggestive of the transnational artist’s pursuit of new forms of political and artistic belonging. Not only do Disla’s characters explore the ontological condition of belonging to more than one society (or perhaps none), his own dramatic oeuvre occupies an unsure space in literary history as well.Peer reviewed