Populism and performance in the Bolivarian revolution of Venezuela / Angela Marino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marino, Angela (Marino Segura), author.

Series:

Performance works

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts--Political aspects--Venezuela--History--20th century.

Performing arts.

Performing arts--Political aspects--Venezuela--History--21st century.

Politics and culture--Venezuela.

Politics and culture.

Political customs and rites--Venezuela.

Political customs and rites.

Devil dance.

Populism.

Performing arts--Political aspects.

History.

Venezuela--History--Revolution, 1958.

Venezuela.

Venezuela--History--1999-.

Populism--Venezuela.

Devil dance--Venezuela.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 212 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Populism and Performance in the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela explains how supporters of the emergent socialism of Hugo Chávez negotiated terms of national belonging and participatory democracy through performance. By foregrounding populism as an embodied act, Angela Marino draws attention to repertoires of populism that contributed to what is arguably the most significant social movement in the Americas since the Cuban Revolution. Based on ethnographic and archival research, Marino focuses on performances of the devil figure, tracing this beloved trickster through religious fiestas, mid-century theater and film, and other media as it both antagonizes and unifies a movement against dictatorship and neoliberalism. She then demonstrates that performance became a vehicle through which cultural producers negotiated boundaries of inclusion and exclusion in ways that overcame the simplistic logic of good versus evil, us versus them. The result is a nuanced insight into the process of building political mobilization out of crisis and through monumental times of change. The book will interest readers of Latin American politics, cultural studies, political science, and performance studies by providing a vital record of the revolution, with valuable insights into its internal dynamics and lessons for building a populist movement of the left in contentious times. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction. Populism and performance

Corpus Christi devils and the performance of populism

Fiesta politics in the making of the urban barrio

Florentino and the devil: campaign populism as performance

The symbol keeps performing: three populist turns of the horse of Bolivar

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780810136731

0810136732

9780810136748

0810136740

OCLC:

1003704529