Provides an understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. This title shows how the repertoire of embodied memory - conveyed in gestures, the spoken word, movement, dance, song, and other performances - offers alternative perspectives to a reconsideration of historical processes of transnational contact.
Provides an understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. This title shows how the repertoire of embodied memory - conveyed in gestures, the spoken word, movement, dance, song, and other performances - offers alternative perspectives to a reconsideration of historical processes of transnational contact.
Diana Taylor is Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish and Director of the Hemispheric Institute on Performance and Politics at New York University. Among her books are Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform (coedited with Roselyn Costantino), Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina’s “Dirty War,” and Negotiating Performance: Gender, Sexuality, and Theatricality in Latin/o America (with Juan Villegas), all also published by Duke University Press.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Illustrations ix Who, When, What, Why xiii 1. Acts of Transfer 1 2. Scenarios of Discovery: Reflections on Performance and Ethnography 53 3. Memory as Cultural Practice: Mestizaje, Hybridity, Transculturation 79 4. La Raza Cosmetica: Walter Mercado Performs Latino Psychic Space 110 5. False Identifications: Minority Populations Mourn Diana 133 6. "You Are Here": H.I.J.O.S. and the DNA of Performance 161 7. Staging Traumatic Memory: Yuyachkani 190 8. Denise Stoklos: The Politics of Decipherability 212 9. Lost in the Field of Vision: Witnessing September 11 237 10. Hemispheric Performances 266 Notes 279 Bibliography 303 Index 321
List of Illustrations ix Who, When, What, Why xiii 1. Acts of Transfer 1 2. Scenarios of Discovery: Reflections on Performance and Ethnography 53 3. Memory as Cultural Practice: Mestizaje, Hybridity, Transculturation 79 4. La Raza Cosmetica: Walter Mercado Performs Latino Psychic Space 110 5. False Identifications: Minority Populations Mourn Diana 133 6. "You Are Here": H.I.J.O.S. and the DNA of Performance 161 7. Staging Traumatic Memory: Yuyachkani 190 8. Denise Stoklos: The Politics of Decipherability 212 9. Lost in the Field of Vision: Witnessing September 11 237 10. Hemispheric Performances 266 Notes 279 Bibliography 303 Index 321
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