عنوان

Performance in the borderlands

0230294553

1349365416

9780230294554

9781349365418

b553508

Performance in the borderlands

[Book]

edited by Ramón H. Rivera-Servera and Harvey Young.

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY

Palgrave Macmillan

2011

(xi, 283 pages)

Performance interventions.

Introduction : border moves / Ramón H. Rivera-Servera and Harvey Young --;Playing the fence, listening to the line : sound, sound art, and acoustic politics at the US-Mexico border / Josh Kun --;Transnational cultural translations and the meaning of Danzón across borders / Alejandro L. Madrid --;Havana isn't waiting : staging travel during Cuba's special period / Patricia Ybarra --;"Architecture is not justice" : seeing Guantánamo Bay / Patrick Anderson --;Crossing Hispaniola : cultural erotics at the Haitian-Dominican borderlands / Ramón H. Rivera-Servera --;"The magic of song!" : John Lomax, Huddie Ledbetter, and the staging of circulation / Paige A. McGinley --;Border intellectual : performing identity at the crossroads / E. Patrick Johnson --;Calling off the border patrol : intercultural dramaturgy in Toronto / Ric Knowles --;Transborder dance : choreographies by Minerva Tapia / José Manuel Valenzuela --;The epistemology of the minor-native in transcolonial border zones / Eng-Beng Lim --;Remembering genocide within our borders : trail of tears and US museum culture / Harvey Young --;Poor Enrique and Poor María, or, the political economy of suffering in two migrant melodramas / Ana Elena Puga --;New tropicalism : performance on the shifting borders of Caribbean disappearance / Lowell Fiet --;Performance in the borderlands roundtable / Patrick Anderson [and others].

A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome and crossed; motivates bodies to climb over; and threatens physical harm. This book critically examines a range of cultural performances produced in relation to the tensions and movements of/about the borders dividing North America, including the Caribbean.

Group identity in the performing arts.

Performing arts -- Social aspects.

Performing arts -- Western Hemisphere.

edited by Ramón H. Rivera-Servera and Harvey Young.

Harvey Young

Ramón H Rivera-Servera

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