Spanish American performance, experimental writing, and the critique of political confusion /
Robert Neustadt.
New York :
Garland Pub.,
1999.
1 online resource (xxi, 206 pages) :
illustrations
Garland reference library of the humanities ;
Latin American studies ;
v. 2136
v. 15
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index.
(Con)fusing approaches to a postmodern position -- Diamela Eltit: clearing space for a critical performance -- Alejandro Jodorowsky: reiterating chaos, rattling the cage of representation -- Guillermo Gomez-Pena: re-drawing the borders -- Conclusion.
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Neustadt uses the term political confusion in a number of ways, most broadly to describe the generalized disorientation associated with Latin America in an age of postmodernity characterized by the coexistence of indigenous, mestizo, and European cultures, juxtaposed with the uneven effects of mass media and high technology.
(Con)fusing signs and postmodern positions.
Art-- Political aspects-- Latin America.
Arts and society-- Latin America.
Literature, Experimental-- Latin America-- History and criticism.
Postmodernism-- Latin America.
Spanish American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.