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The archive and the repertoire : performing cultural memory in the Americas / Diana Taylor.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Taylor, Diana, 1950-
Series:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
a John Hope Franklin Center Book
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Memory--Social aspects--America.
Memory.
Performance art--Political aspects--America.
Performance art.
Performing arts--Political aspects--America.
Performing arts.
North and south.
Postcolonialism--America.
Postcolonialism.
Postcolonialism and the arts--America.
Postcolonialism and the arts.
Ethnicity--America.
Ethnicity.
Minorities--America--Social conditions.
Minorities.
America--Civilization.
America.
America--Ethnic relations.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (350 p.)
Place of Publication:
Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
An interdisciplinary study about the centrality of performance in Latin American culture and politics.
Contents:
Who, when, what, why
Acts of transfer
Scenarios of discovery : reflections on performance and ethnography
Cultural memory and identity : mestizaje, hybridity, transculturation
La raza cosmetica : Walter Mercado performs Latino psychic space
False identifications : minority populations mourn Diana
"You are here" : hijos and the DNA of performance
Staging traumatic memory : Yuyachkani
Denise Stoklos : the politics of decipherability
Lost in the field of vision : witnessing 9/11
Hemispheric performances.
Notes:
"A John Hope Franklin Center book"--Half t.p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-320) and index.
ISBN:
9786612921032
9781282921030
1282921037
9780822385318
0822385317
OCLC:
850218895

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