Performance in the Borderlands [electronic resource] /
Rivera-Servera, R.editor.
Young, H.editor.
A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome and crossed; motivates bodies to climb over; and threatens physical harm. This book critically examines a range of cultural performances produced in relation to the tensions and movements of/about the borders dividing North America, including the Caribbean.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : border moves / Ramón H. Rivera-Servera and Harvey Young -- Playing the fence, listening to the line : sound, sound art, and acoustic politics at the US-Mexico border / Josh Kun -- Transnational cultural translations and the meaning of Danzón across borders / Alejandro Madrid -- Havana isn't waiting : staging travel during Cuba's special period / Patricia Ybarra -- Architecture is not justice : seeing Guantánamo Bay / Patrick Anderson -- Crossing Hispaniola : cultural erotics at the Haitian-Dominican borderlands / Ramón H. Rivera-Servera -- The magic of song! : John Lomax, Huddie Ledbetter, and the staging of circulation / Paige A. McGinley -- Border intellectual : performing identity at the crossroads / E. Patrick Johnson -- Calling off the border patrol / Ric Knowles -- Transborder dance : choreographies by Minerva Tapia / José Manuel Valenzuela -- The epistemology of the minor native in transcolonial border zones / Eng-Beng Lim -- Remembering genocide within our borders : trail of tears & US museum culture / Harvey Young -- Poor Enrique and Poor María, or, the political economy of suffering in two migrant melodramas / Ana Elena Puga -- New tropicalism : performance on the shifting borders of Caribbean disappearance / Lowell Fiet -- Performance in the borderlands roundtable : Patrick Anderson, Lowell Fiet, Rick Knowles, Eng-Beng Lim, Paige A. McGinley, Ana Elena Puga, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, Patricia Ybarra, Harvey Young.
A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome and crossed; motivates bodies to climb over; and threatens physical harm. This book critically examines a range of cultural performances produced in relation to the tensions and movements of/about the borders dividing North America, including the Caribbean.
Theater.
Performing arts.
Cultural studies.
Emigration and immigration.
Theater-History.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Performing Arts.
Cultural Studies.
Migration.
Theatre History.