In Negotiating Performance, major scholars and practitioners of the
theatrical arts consider the diversity of Latin American and U. S.
Latino performance: indigenous theater, performance art, living
installations, carnival, public demonstrations, and gender acts
such as transvestism. By redefining performance to include such
events as Mayan and AIDS theater, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo,
and Argentinean drag culture, this energetic volume discusses the
dynamics of Latino/a identity politics and the sometimes discordant
intersection of gender, sexuality, and nationalisms.
The Latin/o America examined here stretches from Patagonia to New
York City, bridging the political and geographical divides between
U.S. Latinos and Latin Americans. Moving from Nuyorican casitas in
the South Bronx, to subversive street performances in Buenos Aires,
to border art from San Diego/Tijuana, this volume negotiates the
borders that bring Americans together and keep them apart, while at
the same time debating the use of the contested term Latino/a. In
the emerging dialogue, contributors reenvision an inclusive
America, a Latin/o America that does not pit nationality against
ethnicity--in other words, a shared space, and a home to all
Latin/o Americans.
Negotiating Performance opens up the field of Latin/o American
theater and performance criticism by looking at performance work by
Mayans, women, gays, lesbians, and other marginalized groups. In so
doing, this volume will interest a wide audience of students and
scholars in feminist and gender studies, theater and performance
studies, and Latin American and Latino cultural
studies.Contributors. Judith Bettelheim, Sue-Ellen Case, Juan
Flores, Jean Franco, Donald H. Frischmann, Guillermo Gomez-Pena,
Jorge Huerta, Tiffany Ana Lopez, Jacqueline Lazu, Maria Teresa
Marrero, Cherrie Moraga, Kirsten F. Nigro, Patrick O'Connor, Jorge
Salessi, Alberto Sandoval, Cynthia Steele, Diana Taylor, Juan
Villegas, Marguerite Waller
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