Performance in the Borderlands
eBook - PDF

Performance in the Borderlands

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Performance in the Borderlands

About this book

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 bookcritically examines a range of cultural performances produced in relation to the tensions and movements of/about the borders dividing North America, including the Caribbean.

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Yes, you can access Performance in the Borderlands by R. Rivera-Servera, H. Young, R. Rivera-Servera,H. Young in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Performing Arts. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Notes on the Contributors
  5. 1 Introduction: Border Moves
  6. 2 Playing the Fence, Listening to the Line: Sound, Sound Art, and Acoustic Politics at the US-Mexico Border
  7. 3 Transnational Cultural Translations and the Meaning of DanzĂłn across Borders
  8. 4 Havana Isn't Waiting: Staging Travel During Cuba's Special Period
  9. 5 "Architecture is Not Justice": Seeing GuantĂĄnamo Bay
  10. 6 Crossing Hispaniola: Cultural Erotics at the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands
  11. 7 "The Magic of Song!": John Lomax, Huddie Ledbetter, and the Staging of Circulation
  12. 8 Border Intellectual: Performing Identity at the Crossroads
  13. 9 Calling off the Border Patrol: Intercultural Dramaturgy in Toronto
  14. 10 Transborder Dance: Choreographies by Minerva Tapia
  15. 11 The Epistemology of the Minor-Native in Transcolonial Border Zones
  16. 12 Remembering Genocide within Our Borders: Trail of Tears and US Museum Culture
  17. 13 Poor Enrique and Poor MarĂ­a, Or, the Political Economy of Suffering in Two Migrant Melodramas
  18. 14 New Tropicalism: Performance on the Shifting Borders of Caribbean Disappearance
  19. 15 Performance in the Borderlands Roundtable
  20. Index