Beauchesne / Santos Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-137-56873-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 323 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

This book offers an innovative examination of the utopian impulse through performance as a proposition of practical engagement in the contemporary Americas. The volume compiles unique multidisciplinary and exploratory texts, applying diverse critical and artistic approaches. Its contributors reconceptualize utopia as a creative and theoretical method based on a commitment to sociopolitical transformation. Chapters are organized around notions of mapping utopias, indigenizing practices, political manifestations, and the construction of social identities.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beauchesne, Kim

Santos, Alessandra

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Utopian Interventions and their Relevance in the Contemporary Americas - Kim Beauchesne and Alessandra SantosPart 1: Mapping Utopias in Performance: Cross-Cultural (Dis)locations2. A New (Anti) Manifesto for the Americas. Version 2015 - Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Saul García López, and Michèle Ceballos Michot3. tangible cartographies: surviving the colonial/welcome to my house - Jayce Salloum and Manuel Piña4. Flash: Butoh, Hip-Hop, and the Urban Body in Crisis - Michael SakamotoPart 2: Indigenizing Utopian Performances: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Challenges5. Writing. First. contacts? - Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin6. Colonial Blanket for Peoples Who Refuse to Vanish - Afuwa Granger and Aerlyn Weissman7. Masking Revolution: Subcomandante Marcos and the Contemporary Zapatista Movement - Brianne Orr-Álvarez8. Utopic Cannibalism in Fausto Carlos, Leonardo Sette, and Takuma Kuikuro’s As Hiper Mulheres - Sarah ShamashPart 3: Political Manifestations and the Practice of Utopia: Global Connections9. Real Utopias - Erik Olin Wright10. No Suture: Rethinking Utopia through J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, the Occupy Movement, and Idle No More - Dan Adleman11. Utopian Discourse and the 2008 Global Financial Crisis: Andrew Ross Sorkin and Curtis Hanson’s Too Big to Fail, and Antonio Muñoz Molina’s Todo lo que era sólido - Gabriela Badica12. El Che de los Gays and Hija de Perra: Utopian Queer Performances in Post-Dictatorship Chile - Manuela VallePart 4: Utopia and the Performance of Social Identities: Negotiating Collective Subjectivities13. Could Bilingual Radio Be Utopian? Latin American Sound Performance through Radio in Western Canada - Carmen Miranda Barrios14. Revisiting Utopias from the 1970s in Argentine Cinema (2003–2012): The Case of Benjamín Ávila’s Infancia clandestina. Memory and Subjectivity - Rita De Grandis15. The Utopian Impulse in the Videos of Pola Weiss (Mexico City, 1977–1990) - Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda16. Utopia in Ruins: The Ochagavía Hospital - Jon Beasley-Murray

Über Autor(innen)

Kim Beauchesne is Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Alessandra Santos is Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada.