Performances That Change the Americas

This collection of essays explores activist performances, all connected to theater or performance training, that have changed the Americas-from Canada to the Southern Cone.

List of contents

List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
Case Studies in Activist Performance
Stuart A. Day, the University of Kansas
Chapter 2:
Playing Creole: Circus Dramas, the Theater Marketplace, and Urban Society in Argentina and Uruguay
William Acree, Washington University in St. Louis
Chapter 3:
BASTA: Reactivating Bodies and the Dramaturgy of Femicides in Argentina
Paola Hernández, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Chapter 4:
Carnival in Hell: Kinetic Dissidence and the New Queer Carnivalesque in Contemporary Brazil
Pablo Assumpção Barros Costa, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
Chapter 5:
Absent Bodies and Melted Weapons: Art and Social Change in Contemporary Colombia
Gastón Alzate and Paola Marín, California State University, Los Angeles
Chapter 6:
Queering Abiayala: Personal and Political Cartographies of the Indigenous Americas
Tiffany D. Creegan Miller, Colby College
Chapter 7:
Music, Poetry, and Créolité in the Songs of Carole Demesmin, Singer, Troubadour, and Activist
Cécile Accilien, Kennesaw State University
Chapter 8:
An Island in Crisis: Theater Groups and Social Change in Puerto Rico in the New Millennium
Priscilla Meléndez, Trinity College
Chapter 9:
Performing the Revolution: Castro’s Cuba
Marta M. Caminero-Santangelo, University of Kansas
Chapter 10
The Queer/Muxe Performance of Disappearance:
Lukas Avendaño’s Butterfly Utopia
Antonio Prieto Stambaugh, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico
Chapter 11
"Why Are the Canadian Authorities Afraid of This Play?"
Eight Men Speak and Section 98 of the Criminal Code of Canada
Alan Filewod
Index

About the author

Stuart A. Day is Professor of Spanish at the University of Kansas. A graduate of Northern Arizona University, The University of Arizona, and Cornell University, Day’s recent books include Outside Theater: Alliances That Shape Mexico and Modern Mexican Culture

Summary

This collection of essays explores activist performances, all connected to theater or performance training, that have changed the Americas—from Canada to the Southern Cone.

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Alexander Day
• Assisted by: Stuart Alexander Day (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9781032073620
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3207362-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Anthropology, PERFORMING ARTS / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, ART / Art & Politics, ART / American / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, ART / Performance, PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Theatre Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Political campaigning & advertising, The Americas, Performance Art, Political campaigning and advertising, ART / American / Hispanic & Latino