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Holy Terrors (eBook, PDF)

Latin American Women Perform

Redaktion: Diana Taylor, Taylor

Beschreibung

Holy Terrors presents exemplary original work by fourteen of Latin America's foremost contemporary women theatre and performance artists. Many of the pieces-including one-act plays, manifestos, and lyrics-appear in English for the first time. From Griselda Gambaro, Argentina's most widely recognized playwright, to such renowned performers as Brazil's Denise Stoklos and Mexico's Jesusa Rodriguez, these women are involved in some of Latin America's most important aesthetic and political movements. Of varied racial and ethnic backgrounds, they come from across Latin America-Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Peru, and Cuba. This volume is generously illustrated with over seventy images. A number of the performance pieces are complemented by essays providing context and analysis.The performance pieces in Holy Terrors are powerful testimonies to the artists' political and personal struggles. These women confront patriarchy, racism, and repressive government regimes and challenge brutality and corruption through a variety of artistic genres. Several have formed theatre collectives-among them FOMMA (a Mayan women's theatre company in Chiapas) and El Teatro de la mascara in Colombia. Some draw from cabaret and 'frivolous' theatre traditions to create intense and humorous performances that challenge church and state. Engaging in self-mutilation and abandoning traditional dress, others use their bodies as the platforms on which to stage their defiant critiques of injustice. Holy Terrors is a unique English-language presentation of some of Latin America's fiercest, most provocative art.ContributorsSabina BermanTania BrugueraPetrona de la Cruz CruzDiamela EltitGriselda GambaroAstrid HadadTeresa HernandezRosa Luisa MarquezTeresa RalliDiana RaznovichJesusa RodriguezDenise StoklosKatia TiradoEma Villanueva

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Autor

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 The Archive and the Repertoire: Cultural Memory and Performance in the Americas, Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina’s “Dirty War,” and Negotiating Performance: Gender, Sexuality, and Theatricality in Latin/o America, all published by Duke University Press. Roselyn Costantino is Associate Professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Roselyn Costantino is Associate Professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies at Pennsylvania State University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822385325
• Artikelnr.: 54817218