Abject Performances
Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production
Seiten
2018
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-7078-9 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-7078-9 (ISBN)
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.
Leticia Alvarado is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Brown University.
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Sublime Abjection 1
1. Other Desires: Ana Mendieta's Abject Imaginings 25
2. Phantom Assholes: Asco's Affective Vortex 57
3. Of Betties Decorous and Abject: Ugly Betty's America la fea and Nao Bustamante's America la bella 89
4. Arriving at Apostasy: Performative Testimonies of Ambivalent Belonging 131
Conclusion. Abject Embodiment 161
Notes 167
Bibliography 193
Index 209
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.06.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Dissident Acts |
| Zusatzinfo | 69 illustrations, including 10 in color |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 363 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8223-7078-6 / 0822370786 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-7078-9 / 9780822370789 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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