Coco Fusco (ed.): Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (2000)
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“Corpus Delecti is a unique collection of historical and critical studies of contemporary Latin performance. Drawing on live art from the 1960s to the present day, these fascinating essays explore the impact of Latin American politics, popular culture and syncretic religions on Latin performance.
Including contributions by artists as well as scholars, Fusco’s collection bridges the theory/practice divide and discusses a wide variety of genres. Among them are body art, carpa, vaudeville, staged political protest, tropicalist musical comedies, contemporary Venezuelan performance art, the Chicano Art movement, and queer Latino performance.
The essays demonstrate how specific social and historical contexts have shaped Latin American performance. They also show how those factors have affected the choices artists make, and how their work draw upon and respond to their environment.”
Publisher Routledge, 2000
ISBN 0415194547, 9780415194549
307 pages
Reviews: Lisa Wolford (Modern Drama, 2000), Ramon H. Rivera-Servera (Theatre J, 2001).
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Comment (0)Eduardo Mendieta: Global Fragments: Globalizations, Latinamericanisms, and Critical Theory (2007)
Filed under book | Tags: · critical theory, critique, ethics, globalisation, latin america, modernity, philosophy, postmodern, religion
Global Fragments offers an innovative analysis of globalization that aims to circumvent the sterile dichotomies that either praise or demonize globalization. Eduardo Mendieta applies an interdisciplinary approach to one of the most fundamental experiences of globalization: the mega-urbanization of humanity. The claim that globalization unsettles our epistemic maps of the world is tested against a study of Latin America. Mendieta also recontextualizes the work of three major theorists of globalization—Enrique Dussel, Cornel West, and Jürgen Habermas—to show how their thinking reflects engagement with central problems of globalization and, conversely, how globalization itself is exemplified through the reception of their work. Beyond the epistemic hubris of social theories that seek to accept or reject a globalized world, Mendieta calls for a dialogic cosmopolitanism that departs from the mutuality of teaching and learning in a world that is global but not totalized.
Publisher SUNY Press, 2007
ISBN 0791472574, 9780791472576
Length 226 pages
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Claire Taylor, Thea Pitman (eds.): Latin American Cyberculture and Cyberliterature (2007)
Filed under book | Tags: · blogging, cyberculture, electronic literature, hypertext, internet, latin america, literature, media culture
This highly-innovative volume provides the first sustained academic focus on cyberliterature and cyberculture in Latin America, investigating the ways in which this form of cultural production is providing new configurations of subjects, narrative voices, and even political agency. Despite cyberculture’s spread throughout the Hispanic diaspora, much of the influence of this new discipline on Latin American culture remains undocumented. This timely volume focuses on the inclusivity of this new scholarship and provides extensive geographical coverage of topics as diverse as Chicano border writing and Brazilian and Argentine cybercultural phenomena.
Publisher Liverpool University Press, 2007
ISBN 184631061X, 9781846310614
295 pages
Key terms: Zapatistas, posthuman, virtual communities, Rayuela, cyberspace, weblog, hypermedia, netwar, e-magazines, Cyberliterature, blog, Latin American literature, Mexico City, hypertext fiction, EZLN, Jorge Luis Borges, hacktivism, Latin American Cinema.
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