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Beyond the Moment imagines a provocative framework for the analysis of performance that situates the ephemeral act of performance in genealogies of resistance. Mata moves between past, present, and future--drawing on scripts and other documentation of performance--in an effort to honor and critique histories of resistance and to envision the archive of performance materials as a roadmap for future forms of engagement, resistance, and community action. Performance scholars have long wrestled with questions of ephemerality and the archive, and seldom have I had the pleasure of witnessing scholarship that approaches these questions so thoughtfully and courageously.--Brenda Werth, American University, coeditor of Bodies on the Front Lines: Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Beyond the Moment imagines a provocative framework for the analysis of performance that situates the ephemeral act of performance in genealogies of resistance. Mata moves between past, present, and future--drawing on scripts and other documentation of performance--in an effort to honor and critique histories of resistance and to envision the archive of performance materials as a roadmap for future forms of engagement, resistance, and community action. Performance scholars have long wrestled with questions of ephemerality and the archive, and seldom have I had the pleasure of witnessing scholarship that approaches these questions so thoughtfully and courageously.--Brenda Werth, American University, coeditor of Bodies on the Front Lines: Performance, Gender, Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Irene Mata is the director of the Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities and professor of American Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of Domestic Disturbances: Re-Imagining Narratives of Gender, Labor, and Immigration.

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