Beyond the Moment: Connecting Histories of Latinx Performance and Resistance / Irene Mata.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mata, Irene, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Austin University of Texas Press, [2026]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Exploring cultural resistance by creating and archiving Latinx performance art Performance is often seen as ephemeral, a condition that seemingly reduces its activist possibilities. After all, not everyone can take part or bear witness. Beyond the Moment shows how Latinx artists have responded with a theater of dissent that enduresperformance art that also documents and can itself be archived, creating opportunities for sustained solidarity and resistance. Through close readings of works such as Coco Fuscos multi-genre performance A Field Guide for Female Interrogators, Irene Mata theorizes what she calls textual mentoring. This method involves tracing previous moments of resistance, archiving the creative process itself, and transforming the performance into a pedagogical tool. By means of textual mentoring, a work like The Panza Monologues becomes a lesson in confronting systemic oppression through collaborative storytelling. Mata also shows how the 2012 No Papers, No Fear Ride for Justice, a multistate immigrant-rights action, relies on a vocabulary of refusal of movements of the pastlike the Freedom Rides of the Civil Rights eraand continues its activism beyond its immediate performance context by digitally archiving its process. With an emphasis on intersectional critique, Beyond the Moment positions performance as a radical form of resistance that educates and inspires across generations and movements.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

INTRODUCTION

ONE Performing Violence

TWO Topographies of Resistance

THREE A Seat on the Bus

CONCLUSION

Mentoring and Imagining Visions of Change

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed April 14 2026)

ISBN:

1-4773-3358-4

9781477333587