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Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas /

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 reconce...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Group Author: Beauchesne, Kim. (Editor); Santos, Alessandra. (Editor)
Published: Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Culture > Study and teaching.
Ethnology > Latin America.
Democracy.
Cultural studies.
Religion and culture.
Cultural and Media Studies.
Latin American Culture.
Cultural Theory.
Sociology of Culture.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56873-1
Summary: 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.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (XIX, 323 pages) : illustrations
ISBN: 9781137568731
Index Number: GN562
CLC: C912.4
Contents: 1. Introduction: Utopian Interventions and their Relevance in the Contemporary Americas - Kim Beauchesne and Alessandra Santos -- 2. A New (Anti) Manifesto for the Americas. Version 2015 - Guillermo G mez-Pe a, Saul Garc a L pez, and Mich le Ceballos Michot -- 3. tangible cartographies: surviving the colonial/welcome to my house - Jayce Salloum and Manuel Pi a -- 4. Flash: Butoh, Hip-Hop, and the Urban Body in Crisis - Michael Sakamoto -- 5. Writing. First. contacts? - Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin -- 6. Colonial Blanket for Peoples Who Refuse to Vanish - Afuwa Granger and Aerlyn Weissman -- 7. Masking Revolution: Subcomandante Marcos and the Contemporary Zapatista Movement - Brianne Orr- lvarez -- 8. Utopic Cannibalism in Fausto Carlos, Leonardo Sette, and Takuma Kuikuro s As Hiper Mulheres - Sarah Shamash -- 9. Real Utopias - Erik Olin Wright -- 10. No Suture: Rethinking Utopia through J. M. Coetzee s Disgrace, the Occupy Movement, and Idle No More - Dan Adleman -- 11. Utopian Discourse and the 2008 Global Financial Crisis: Andrew Ross Sorkin and Curtis Hanson s Too Big to Fail, and Antonio Mu oz Molina s Todo lo que era s lido - Gabriela Badica -- 12. El Che de los Gays and Hija de Perra: Utopian Queer Performances in Post-Dictatorship Chile - Manuela Valle -- 13. Could Bilingual Radio Be Utopian? Latin American Sound Performance through Radio in Western Canada - Carmen Miranda Barrios -- 14. Revisiting Utopias from the 1970s in Argentine Cinema (2003 2012): The Case of Benjam n vila s Infancia clandestina. Memory and Subjectivity - Rita De Grandis -- 15. The Utopian Impulse in the Videos of Pola Weiss (Mexico City, 1977 1990) - Gabriela Aceves Sep lveda -- 16. Utopia in Ruins: The Ochagav a Hospital - Jon Beasley-Murray.

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