Diana Taylor

The Archive and the Repertoire

Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas

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Produktbeschreibung

An interdisciplinary study about the centrality of performance in Latin American culture and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 588g
• ISBN-13: 9780822331360
• ISBN-10: 0822331365
• Artikelnr.: 22227990

Autorenporträt

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