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(Con)fusing signs and postmodern positions : Spanish American performance, experimental writing, and the critique of political confusion / Robert Neustadt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neustadt, Robert Alan, 1961-
- Series:
- Garland reference library of the humanities. Latin American studies ; vol. 15.
- Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 2136.
- Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 2136. Latin American studies ; v. 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spanish American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Spanish American literature.
- Literature, Experimental--Latin America--History and criticism.
- Literature, Experimental.
- Postmodernism--Latin America.
- Postmodernism.
- Art--Political aspects.
- Arts and society.
- Latin America.
- Arts and society--Latin America.
- Art--Political aspects--Latin America.
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Confusing signs and postmodern positions
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Garland, 1999.
- Summary:
- Foregrounding a strategy of experimental techniques which Neustadt call "(con)fusing signs," the book explores critical and political dimensions of contemporary Spanish American artistic practices that are often explained away in the vague name of postmodern fragmentation. ("Con)Fusing Signs" explores the techniques, consequences and purposes for this type of fragmentation. This study reassesses the much discussed "crisis of representation" through an analysis of the complexity of political critique in areas as diverse (and related) as postmodernity, military dictatorship and postcolonialism. This book explores the manner in which multimedia artists Diamela Eltit, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Guillermo G-mez-Pe-a articulate political critiques through textual (con)fusion while paradoxically underscoring their inability to get outside of discourse.
- Contents:
- 1. (Con)Fusing Approaches to a Postmodern Position 3
- 2. Diamela Eltit: Clearing Space for a Critical Performance 25
- 3. Alejandro Jodorowsky: Reiterating Chaos, Rattling the Cage of Representation 83
- 4. Guillermo Gomez-Pena: Re-Drawing the Borders 133.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0815332726
- OCLC:
- 41108484
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