Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas

Kim Beauchesne, Alessandra Santos, Kim Beauchesne, Alessandra Santos

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN:
  9781137568731
• Print ISBN:
  9781137571540
• Subtopic: Democracy

This book offers an innovative examination of the utopian impulse through performance as a proposition of practical engagement in the contemporary Americas. The volume compiles unique multidisciplinary and exploratory texts, applying diverse critical and artistic approaches. Its contributors reconceptualize utopia as a creative and theoretical method based on a commitment to sociopolitical transformation. Chapters are organized around notions of mapping utopias, indigenizing practices, political manifestations, and the construction of social identities.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: Introduction: Utopian Interventions and Their Relevance in the Contemporary Americas
• Part I: Mapping Utopias in Performance: Cross-Cultural (Dis)locations
• Chapter 2: A New (Anti) Manifesto for the Americas. Version 2015
• Chapter 3: tangible cartographies: surviving the colonial/welcome to my house
• Chapter 4: Flash: Butoh, Hip-Hop, and the Urban Body in Crisis
• Part II: Indigenizing Utopian Performances: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Challenges
• Chapter 5: Writing. First. Contacts?
• Chapter 6: Colonial Blanket for Peoples Who Refuse to Vanish
• Chapter 7: Masking Revolution: Subcomandante Marcos and the Contemporary Zapatista Movement
• Chapter 8: Utopic Cannibalism in Carlos Fausto, Leonardo Sette, and Takumã Kuikuro’s As Hiper Mulheres
• Part III: Political Manifestations and the Practice of Utopia: Global Connections
• Chapter 9: Real Utopias
• Chapter 10: No Suture: Rethinking Utopia Through J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, the Occupy Movement, and Idle No More
• Chapter 11: Utopian Discourse and the 2008 Global Financial Crisis: Andrew Ross Sorkin’s and Curtis Hanson’s Too Big to Fail, and Antonio Muñoz Molina’s Todo lo que era sólido
• Chapter 12: El Che de los Gays and Hija de Perra: Utopian Queer Performances in Postdictatorship Chile
• Part IV: Utopia and the Performance of Social Identities: Negotiating Collective Subjectivities
• Chapter 13: Could Bilingual Radio Be Utopian? Latin American Sound Performance Through Radio in Western Canada
• Chapter 14: Revisiting Utopias from the 1970s in Argentine Cinema (2003–2012)
• Chapter 15: The Utopian Impulse in the Videos of Pola Weiss (Mexico City, 1977–1990)
• Chapter 16: Utopia in Ruins: The Ochagavía Hospital
• Index