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Performance in the Borderlands

✍ Scribed by Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, Harvey Young (eds.)


Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Leaves
295
Series
Performance Interventions
Category
Library

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✦ Table of Contents


Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Border Moves....Pages 1-16
Playing the Fence, Listening to the Line: Sound, Sound Art, and Acoustic Politics at the US-Mexico Border....Pages 17-36
Transnational Cultural Translations and the Meaning of Danzôn across Borders1....Pages 37-57
Havana Isn’t Waiting: Staging Travel During Cuba’s Special Period....Pages 58-81
“Architecture is Not Justice”: Seeing Guantánamo Bay....Pages 82-96
Crossing Hispaniola: Cultural Erotics at the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands....Pages 97-127
“The Magic of Song!”: John Lomax, Huddie Ledbetter, and the Staging of Circulation....Pages 128-146
Border Intellectual: Performing Identity at the Crossroads....Pages 147-160
Calling off the Border Patrol: Intercultural Dramaturgy in Toronto....Pages 161-181
Transborder Dance: Choreographies by Minerva Tapia....Pages 182-192
The Epistemology of the Minor-Native in Transcolonial Border Zones....Pages 193-205
Remembering Genocide within Our Borders: Trail of Tears and US Museum Culture....Pages 206-224
Poor Enrique and Poor María, Or, the Political Economy of Suffering in Two Migrant Melodramas....Pages 225-247
New Tropicalism: Performance on the Shifting Borders of Caribbean Disappearance....Pages 248-265
Performance in the Borderlands Roundtable....Pages 266-278
Back Matter....Pages 279-283

✦ Subjects


Theatre and Performance Studies; Performing Arts; Cultural Studies; Migration; Theatre History


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