Negotiating Performance

Gender, Sexuality, and Theatricality in Latin/o America

By: Diana Taylor (Editor)

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Paperback | 29 December 1994

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In Negotiating Performance, major scholars and practitioners of the theatrical arts consider the diversity of Latin American and U. S. Latino performance: indigenous theater, performance art, living installations, carnival, public demonstrations, and gender acts such as transvestism. By redefining performance to include such events as Mayan and AIDS theater, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, and Argentinean drag culture, this energetic volume discusses the dynamics of Latino/a identity politics and the sometimes discordant intersection of gender, sexuality, and nationalisms.
The Latin/o America examined here stretches from Patagonia to New York City, bridging the political and geographical divides between U.S. Latinos and Latin Americans. Moving from Nuyorican casitas in the South Bronx, to subversive street performances in Buenos Aires, to border art from San Diego/Tijuana, this volume negotiates the borders that bring Americans together and keep them apart, while at the same time debating the use of the contested term "Latino/a." In the emerging dialogue, contributors reenvision an inclusive "América," a Latin/o America that does not pit nationality against ethnicity&;in other words, a shared space, and a home to all Latin/o Americans.
Negotiating Performance

opens up the field of Latin/o American theater and performance criticism by looking at performance work by Mayans, women, gays, lesbians, and other marginalized groups. In so doing, this volume will interest a wide audience of students and scholars in feminist and gender studies, theater and performance studies, and Latin American and Latino cultural studies.

Contributors. Judith Bettelheim, Sue-Ellen Case, Juan Flores, Jean Franco, Donald H. Frischmann, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Jorge Huerta, Tiffany Ana López, Jacqueline Lazú, María Teresa Marrero, Cherríe Moraga, Kirsten F. Nigro, Patrick O&;Connor, Jorge Salessi, Alberto Sandoval, Cynthia Steele, Diana Taylor, Juan Villegas, Marguerite Waller

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"Among its many virtues, Negotiating Performance has the merit of bravely tackling the thorny issue of Latino identity head-on. Taylor's strong and thoughtful introduction sets the tone for a challenging reflection on the pitfalls of a multiculturalist stance (be it purely commercial or naively sympathetic) that blithely incorporates, homogenizes, and dispatches differences without ever dwelling on the more profound implications of those differences in U. S. culture today."--Sylvia Molloy, New York University

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Acknowledgments
Opening Remarks
The Multicultural Paradigm: An Open Letter to the National Arts Community
Art in America con Acento
Looking for the Magic: Chicanos in the Mainstream
Staging AIDS: What's Latinos Got To Do With It?
Border
Boda or Divorce
Fronterizo?
Seduced and Abandoned: Chicanas and Lesbians in Representation
Public Art, Performance Art, and the politics of Site
"Salvacion Casita": Puerto Rican Performance and Vernacular Architecture in the South Bronx
Inventions and Transgressions: A Fractured Narrative on Feminist Theatre in Mexico
A Touch of Evil: Jesusa Rodriguez's Subversive Church
Ethnicity, Gender, and Power: Carnaval in Santiago de Cuba
New Mayan Theatre in Chiapas: Anthropology, Literacy, and Social Drama
"A Woman Fell into the River": Negotiating Female Subjects in Contemporary Mayan Theatre
For Carnival, Clinic, and Camera: Argentina's Turn-of-the-Century Drag Culture Performs "Woman"
Performing Gender: Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo
Closing Remarks
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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