Performance Interventions

By: Ramn H. Rivera-Servera (Editor), Harvey Young (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 December 2010 | Edition Number 1

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Performance in the Borderlands critically examines a range of performances produced in relation to the tensions and movements of/about the border. Comprised of thirteen essays and a transcribed conversation involving the majority of this collection's contributors, this book places a spotlight on both the material and imagined lines of division that exist within North America, including the Caribbean, and divide both geographical regions and the people who inhabit them. In focusing upon the northern portion of the western hemisphere, Performance in the Borderlands does not center on any one national border, but instead brings into the focus the many boundaries that exist within the quadrant. It critically explores not only the border that exists between the United States and Mexico but also the intranational divisions (state and regional differences) within the United States, the creation of boundaries by multinational capitalist investment and militaristic presence in the Caribbean, and the natural and political obstacles that inhibit travel between Mexico and Guatemala, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

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"Featuring scholars from Cultural, Visual and Performance Studies, as well as sociology and ethnomusicology, the book focuses on the notion of borderlands as it manifests in and through performance. ... Performance in the Borderlands is an extremely rich, dense, well-informed and very informative volume. Covering a multiplicity of topics in various border zones, these essays offer fascinating new scholarship in the fields of Border and Performance Studies." (Astrid M. Fellner, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 4 (2), November, 2016)

'... offers an exciting series of perspectives, readings, and cross-disciplinary engagements with this most important theme and makes a persuasive case for the contribution performance studies can make to the wider border studies field... This volume will be of interest to scholars and students in performance, cultural and border studies: it presents a rich, rewarding, and timely series of readings which will add considerably to the potentialities and provocations of work in this field.' - Sophie Nield, Contemporary Theatre Review

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Acknowledgements	p. vii
Notes on the Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: Border Moves	p. 1
Playing the Fence, Listening to the Line: Sound, Sound Art, and Acoustic Politics at the US-Mexico Border	p. 17
Transnational Cultural Translations and the Meaning of Danzón across Borders	p. 37
Havana Isn't Waiting: Staging Travel During Cuba's Special Period	p. 58
"Architecture is Not Justice" Seeing Guantánamo Bay	p. 82
Crossing Hispaniola: Cultural Erotics at the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands	p. 97
"The Magic of Song!": John Lomax, Huddie Ledbetter, and the Staging of Circulation	p. 128
Border Intellectual: Performing Identity at the Crossroads	p. 147
Calling off the Border Patrol: Intercultural Dramaturgy in Toronto	p. 161
Transborder Dance: Choreographies by Minerva Tapia	p. 182
The Epistemology of the Minor-Native in Transcolonial Border Zones	p. 193
Remembering Genocide within Our Borders: Trail of Tears and US Museum Culture	p. 206
Poor Enrique and Poor María, Or, the Political Economy of Suffering in Two Migrant Melodramas	p. 225
New Tropicalism: Performance on the Shifting Borders of Caribbean Disappearance	p. 248
Performance in the Borderlands Roundtable	p. 279
Index	p. 279
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