Performances that Change the Americas

Herausgeber: Day, Stuart Alexander

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays explores activist performances, all connected to theater or performance training, that have changed the Americas-from Canada to the Southern Cone. Through the study of specific examples from numerous countries, the authors of this volume demonstrate a crucial, shared outlook: they affirm that ordinary people change the direction of history through performance. This project offers concrete, compelling cases that emulate the modus operandi of people like historian Howard Zinn. In the same spirit, the chapters treat marginal groups whose stories underscore the potentially unstoppable and transformative power of united, embodied voices. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre, performance, art and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9780367489496
• ISBN-10: 036748949X
• Artikelnr.: 62232601

Autorenporträt

Stuart A. Day is Professor of Spanish at the University of Kansas. A graduate of Northern Arizona University, The University of Arizona, and Cornell University, Day's recent books include Outside Theater: Alliances That Shape Mexico and Modern Mexican Culture

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
Case Studies in Activist Performance
Stuart A. Day, the University of Kansas
Chapter 2:
Playing Creole: Circus Dramas, the Theater Marketplace, and Urban Society
in Argentina and Uruguay
William Acree, Washington University in St. Louis
Chapter 3:
BASTA: Reactivating Bodies and the Dramaturgy of Femicides in Argentina
Paola Hernández, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chapter 4:
Carnival in Hell: Kinetic Dissidence and the New Queer Carnivalesque in
Contemporary Brazil
Pablo Assumpção Barros Costa, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
Chapter 5:
Absent Bodies and Melted Weapons: Art and Social Change in Contemporary
Colombia
Gastón Alzate and Paola Marín, California State University, Los Angeles
Chapter 6:
Queering Abiayala: Personal and Political Cartographies of the Indigenous
Americas
Tiffany D. Creegan Miller, Colby College
Chapter 7:
Music, Poetry, and Créolité in the Songs of Carole Demesmin, Singer,
Troubadour, and Activist
Cécile Accilien, Kennesaw State University
Chapter 8:
An Island in Crisis: Theater Groups and Social Change in Puerto Rico in the
New Millennium
Priscilla Meléndez, Trinity College
Chapter 9:
Performing the Revolution: Castro's Cuba
Marta M. Caminero-Santangelo, University of Kansas
Chapter 10
The Queer/Muxe Performance of Disappearance:
Lukas Avendaño's Butterfly Utopia
Antonio Prieto Stambaugh, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico
Chapter 11
"Why Are the Canadian Authorities Afraid of This Play?"
Eight Men Speak and Section 98 of the Criminal Code of Canada
Alan Filewod
Index