Abject Performances : Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production

Name: Abject Performances
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 9780822370635
Price: 15300 KES
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ISBN: 9780822370635

by Leticia Alvarado

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Format Hardback

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

Product Classification: Performance art Social & cultural history Cultural studies Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism Hispanic & Latino studies

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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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