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In Negotiating Performance, major scholars and practitioners of the theatrical arts consider the diversity of Latin American and U. S. Latino performance: indigenous theater, performance art, living installations, carnival, public demonstrations, and gender acts such as transvestism. By redefining performance to include such events as Mayan and AIDS theater, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, and Argentinean drag culture, this energetic volume discusses the dynamics of Latino/a identity politics and the sometimes discordant intersection of gender, sexuality, and nationalisms.
The Latin/o America examined here stretches from Patagonia to New York City, bridging the political and geographical divides between U.S. Latinos and Latin Americans. Moving from Nuyorican casitas in the South Bronx, to subversive street performances in Buenos Aires, to border art from San Diego/Tijuana, this volume negotiates the borders that bring Americans together and keep them apart, while at the same time debating the use of the contested term undefined#34;Latino/a.undefined#34; In the emerging dialogue, contributors reenvision an inclusive undefined#34;Amundefined#233;rica,undefined#34; a Latin/o America that does not pit nationality against ethnicityundefined;in other words, a shared space, and a home to all Latin/o Americans.
Negotiating Performance

opens up the field of Latin/o American theater and performance criticism by looking at performance work by Mayans, women, gays, lesbians, and other marginalized groups. In so doing, this volume will interest a wide audience of students and scholars in feminist and gender studies, theater and performance studies, and Latin American and Latino cultural studies.

Contributors. Judith Bettelheim, Sue-Ellen Case, Juan Flores, Jean Franco, Donald H. Frischmann, Guillermo Gundefined#243;mez-Peundefined#241;a, Jorge Huerta, Tiffany Ana Lundefined#243;pez, Jacqueline Lazundefined#250;, Marundefined#237;a Teresa Marrero, Cherrundefined#237;e Moraga, Kirsten F. Nigro, Patrick Oundefined;Connor, Jorge Salessi, Alberto Sandoval, Cynthia Steele, Diana Taylor, Juan Villegas, Marguerite Waller

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9780822315155
Author
Diana Taylor
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Pages
366

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In Negotiating Performance, major scholars and practitioners of the theatrical arts consider the diversity of Latin American and U. S. Latino performance: indigenous theater, performance art, living installations, carnival, public demonstrations, and gender acts such as transvestism. By redefining performance to include such events as Mayan and AIDS theater, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, and Argentinean drag culture, this energetic volume discusses the dynamics of Latino/a identity politics and the sometimes discordant intersection of gender, sexuality, and nationalisms.
The Latin/o America examined here stretches from Patagonia to New York City, bridging the political and geographical divides between U.S. Latinos and Latin Americans. Moving from Nuyorican casitas in the South Bronx, to subversive street performances in Buenos Aires, to border art from San Diego/Tijuana, this volume negotiates the borders that bring Americans together and keep them apart, while at the same time debating the use of the contested term undefined#34;Latino/a.undefined#34; In the emerging dialogue, contributors reenvision an inclusive undefined#34;Amundefined#233;rica,undefined#34; a Latin/o America that does not pit nationality against ethnicityundefined;in other words, a shared space, and a home to all Latin/o Americans.
Negotiating Performance

opens up the field of Latin/o American theater and performance criticism by looking at performance work by Mayans, women, gays, lesbians, and other marginalized groups. In so doing, this volume will interest a wide audience of students and scholars in feminist and gender studies, theater and performance studies, and Latin American and Latino cultural studies.

Contributors. Judith Bettelheim, Sue-Ellen Case, Juan Flores, Jean Franco, Donald H. Frischmann, Guillermo Gundefined#243;mez-Peundefined#241;a, Jorge Huerta, Tiffany Ana Lundefined#243;pez, Jacqueline Lazundefined#250;, Marundefined#237;a Teresa Marrero, Cherrundefined#237;e Moraga, Kirsten F. Nigro, Patrick Oundefined;Connor, Jorge Salessi, Alberto Sandoval, Cynthia Steele, Diana Taylor, Juan Villegas, Marguerite Waller