Description: Abject Performances by Leticia Alvarado Leticia Alvarado explores how Latino artists and cultural producers have developed and deployed an irreverent aesthetics of abjection to resist assimilation and disrupt respectability politics. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher 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. Author Biography Leticia Alvarado is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Brown University. Table of Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Sublime Abjection 1 1. Other Desires: Ana Mendietas Abject Imaginings 25 2. Phantom Assholes: Ascos Affective Vortex 57 3. Of Betties Decorous and Abject: Ugly Bettys America la fea and Nao Bustamantes America la bella 89 4. Arriving at Apostasy: Performative Testimonies of Ambivalent Belonging 131 Conclusion. Abject Embodiment 161 Notes 167 Bibliography 193 Index 209 Review "In writing this, I am thinking of contemporary figures of abjection—the asylum seeker, the victim of domestic abuse and gang violence, the parent and child violently separated at the US border. Abject Performances does not make such figures more legible, but rather encourages readers towards being with illegibility so as to create a condition for thinking through alternatives to citizenship, to accept the unknown and unknowable as a viable, yet confounding aesthetic, and a necessary, though unsustainable politic." -- Eddie Gamboa * Women & Performance *"Abject Performances presents a dynamic, fascinating, and novel approach to understanding the role of abjection in contestatory articulations of Latino identity. From the esoteric to the popular, the sacred to the profane, Leticia Alvarado weaves together a narrative that convincingly positions the abject as an entirely distinct way of producing latinidad through diverse cultural products." -- Alexandra Gonzenbach Perkins * Journal of American Studies *"Alvarados book usefully brings aesthetics and affect theory to bear upon not only what Latinidad means, but also how its possibilities can shift. . . . Alvarado rigorously theorizes a strand of Latinx affective and aesthetic engagement that names a feeling we already have and a perspective we need to embrace." -- Renee Hudson * ASAP/Journal *"Abject Performances is an ambitious text. The breadth of theoretical frameworks is especially impressive given the depth of critical analysis that complements them. . . . Viewing the ways in which aesthetic theory meets performance and media studies, Latino studies, and queer theory as an emerging flux continues necessary conversations in these fields." -- Lacie Rae B. Cunningham * Aztlán *"Alvarado brings together artistic, academic, and activist ways of being and doing in this world, opening spaces to imagine brighter futures. . . . Against the myth of wholeness and completion, Alvarado offers a final Muñozian gesture: circling back to the urgency of imagining futurity, Abject Performances rehearses a path towards a more sensual world not-yet-here." -- Leticia Robles-Moreno * TDR: The Drama Review *"Abject Performances lingers on moments of discord, rupture, and disunity among Latinx cultural producers and picks at the wounds to find what political possibilities might emerge in them.... I am fortified and inspired that such work is now possible...." -- Jillian Hernandez * American Quarterly * Review Quote "In writing this, I am thinking of contemporary figures of abjection--the asylum seeker, the victim of domestic abuse and gang violence, the parent and child violently separated at the US border. Abject Performances does not make such figures more legible, but rather encourages readers towards being with illegibility so as to create a condition for thinking through alternatives to citizenship, to accept the unknown and unknowable as a viable, yet confounding aesthetic, and a necessary, though unsustainable politic." Details ISBN0822370786 Author Leticia Alvarado Publisher Duke University Press Series Dissident Acts Year 2018 ISBN-10 0822370786 ISBN-13 9780822370789 Format Paperback Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Pages 232 DEWEY 302.2308968073 Publication Date 2018-05-04 Short Title Abject Performances Language English UK Release Date 2018-05-04 AU Release Date 2018-05-04 NZ Release Date 2018-05-04 US Release Date 2018-05-04 Illustrations 69 illustrations, including 10 Alternative 9780822370635 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:127148097;
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ISBN-13: 9780822370789
Book Title: Abject Performances
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: 363 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Leticia Alvarado
Subject Area: Gender Issues
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
