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OverviewRevolutionary feminisms and queer and trans activist movements are traversing Latin America and the Caribbean. Bodies on the Front Lines situates recent performances and protest actions within legacies of homegrown gender and sexual rights activism from the South. Performances — enacted in public spaces and intimate venues, across national borders, and through circulating hashtags and digital media — play crucial roles in the elaboration, auto-theorization, translation, and reception of feminist, queer, and trans activism. Movements such as Argentina's NiUnaMenos (Not One Less) have brought together hundreds of thousands of protesters and ‘artivists’ on the streets of major cities in Latin America and beyond to denounce gender violence and demand gender, sexual, and reproductive rights. The volume’s contributors draw from rich legacies of theater, performance, and activism in the region, as well as decolonial and intersectional theorizing, to demonstrate the ways that performance practices enable activists to sustain their movements. The chapters engage diverse perspectives from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, transnational Central America, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. Rather than taking an approach that simplifies complexities among states, Bodies on the Front Lines takes seriously the geopolitical stakes of examining Latin America and the Caribbean as a heterogeneous site of nations and networks. In chapters covering this wide geographical area, leading scholars in the fields of theater and performance studies showcase the aesthetic, social, and political work of performance in generating and fortifying gender and sexual activism in the Americas. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Brenda Werth , Katherine ZienPublisher: The University of Michigan Press Imprint: The University of Michigan Press ISBN: 9780472076734ISBN 10: 0472076736 Pages: 464 Publication Date: 24 April 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I. Digital and Direct Action 1. ‘An Explosion of Feminism:’ Dramaturgies of Excess and Revolution in Chile’s New Feminist / Jennifer Joan Thompson 2. General Strike: Feminist Performance? / Vanessa Gubbins 3. ‘How Does a Woman Poet Fuck?’: A Gloss/ary on the Possibilities of Chola Transfeminisms / Olga RodrÍguez-Ulloa 4. Digital Testimonio: (Re)Counting Femicide in Cuba / Candice Amich 5. Performing Contemporary Feminisms in Transnational Mexico: #MiPrimerAcoso and #MeToo / Ever Osorio Part II. Beyond Bad Scripts 6. Performance and Activism in the Peruvian Post-Dictatorship Era: ‘We Are 2074 and Many More’ / BethsabÉ HuamÁn AndÍa 7. The Caravana of Central American Mothers in Mexico: Protesting Migrant Disappearance on a Transnational Stage-in-Motion / Ana Elena Puga 8. Resisting ‘Bad Scripts’ in Atabal CreaciÓn Artistica’s Yo no quiero ser DesdÉmona / Sarah Alice Campbell 9. Acts of Commemoration: Liberating SalomÉ UreÑa from the Dominican Pantheon / Camilla Stevens 10. Women’s Testimonies on Stage: Femicides Across the US-Mexico Border / Paola HernÁndez Part III. Dissident Bodies, Rebellious Objects 11. Maximiliano Mamani/Bartolina Xixa: Queer Indigenous Performance at the Edge of a Decaying World / Tara Daly 12. Feeling Chola: Giuseppe Campuzano’s and Germain Machuca’s No-Place Performances / Leticia Robles-Moreno 13. The Political is Personal: Performing Surreal Bodies of Evidence in Necropolitical Brazil / Carla Melo 14. Grotesque Dramaturgy and Gender Critique in the Post-Dictatorship Southern Cone / Anne GarcÍa-Romero 15. Cuir/Queer Afro-Cuban and Xicanx Transnational Encounters: Debora Kuetzpal Vasquez’s Dualidad: Todas las partesde mi ser / Mariela Mendez and Patricia Herrera Part IV. Taking to the Streets: Festive Forms and Public Protest 16. Between the White and Green Scarves: Vibrant Assemblages of Feminist Insubordination / Cecilia Sosa 17. Feathering Foes: Mickey NegrÓn’s Religious Transloca Ritual / Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes 18. De eso sÍ se habla: The Politics of Abortion in La MÁscara’s Maria Farrar / Marcelo Carosi 19. Modestia aparte: Women’s Rights in the First All-women Feminist Murga in Argentina / Manuela Borzone 20. Polleras, Protest, and Pile-Drivers: Staging Spectacular Violence in Bolivia / Nell Haynes Contributors IndexReviewsAuthor InformationBrenda Werth is Associate Professor of Latin American and Spanish Studies at American University. Katherine Zien is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at McGill University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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