Description: 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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EAN: 9780822370635
UPC: 9780822370635
ISBN: 9780822370635
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Book Title: Abject Performances: Aesthetic Strategies in Latin
Item Length: 23.4 cm
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Abject Performances: Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: Social Sciences, History
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 476 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Leticia Alvarado
Subject Area: Gender Issues
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Hardcover
