Abject Performances : Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Dissident Acts
ISBN-10
0822370638
ISBN-13
9780822370635
Publisher
Duke University Press
Imprint
Duke University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 4th, 2018
Print length
232 Pages
Weight
498 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 23.90 x 1.80 cms
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In Abject Performances Leticia Alvarado draws out the irreverent, disruptive aesthetic strategies used by Latino artists and cultural producers who shun standards of respectability that are typically used to conjure concrete minority identities. In place of works imbued with pride, redemption, or celebration, artists such as Ana Mendieta, Nao Bustamante, and the Chicano art collective known as Asco employ negative affects-shame, disgust, and unbelonging-to capture experiences that lie at the edge of the mainstream, inspirational Latino-centered social justice struggles. Drawing from a diverse expressive archive that ranges from performance art to performative testimonies of personal faith-based subjection, Alvarado illuminates modes of community formation and social critique defined by a refusal of identitarian coherence that nonetheless coalesce into Latino affiliation and possibility.
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