Diana Taylor

The Archive and the Repertoire

Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• A John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 151mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9780822331230
• ISBN-10: 0822331233
• Artikelnr.: 21065112

Autorenporträt

Diana Taylor

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