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Performance in the Borderlands

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Ramón H. Rivera-Servera

    1. Ohio State University, USA

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  2. Harvey Young

    1. Northwestern University, USA

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Part of the book series: Performance Interventions (PIPI)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Border Moves

    • Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, Harvey Young
    Pages 1-16

  3. Playing the Fence, Listening to the Line: Sound, Sound Art, and Acoustic Politics at the US-Mexico Border

    • Josh Kun
    Pages 17-36

  4. Transnational Cultural Translations and the Meaning of Danzôn across Borders1

    • Alejandro L. Madrid
    Pages 37-57

  5. Havana Isn’t Waiting: Staging Travel During Cuba’s Special Period

    • Patricia Ybarra
    Pages 58-81

  6. “Architecture is Not Justice”: Seeing Guantánamo Bay

    • Patrick Anderson
    Pages 82-96

  7. Crossing Hispaniola: Cultural Erotics at the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands

    • Ramón H. Rivera-Servera
    Pages 97-127

  8. “The Magic of Song!”: John Lomax, Huddie Ledbetter, and the Staging of Circulation

    • Paige A. McGinley
    Pages 128-146

  9. Border Intellectual: Performing Identity at the Crossroads

    • E. Patrick Johnson
    Pages 147-160

  10. Calling off the Border Patrol: Intercultural Dramaturgy in Toronto

    • Ric Knowles
    Pages 161-181

  11. Transborder Dance: Choreographies by Minerva Tapia

    • José Manuel Valenzuela
    Pages 182-192

  12. The Epistemology of the Minor-Native in Transcolonial Border Zones

    • Eng-Beng Lim
    Pages 193-205

  13. Remembering Genocide within Our Borders: Trail of Tears and US Museum Culture

    • Harvey Young
    Pages 206-224

  14. Poor Enrique and Poor María, Or, the Political Economy of Suffering in Two Migrant Melodramas

    • Ana Elena Puga
    Pages 225-247

  15. New Tropicalism: Performance on the Shifting Borders of Caribbean Disappearance

    • Lowell Fiet
    Pages 248-265

  16. Performance in the Borderlands Roundtable

    • Patrick Anderson, Lowell Fiet, Ric Knowles, Eng-Beng Lim, Paige A. McGinley, Ana Elena Puga et al.
    Pages 266-278

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 279-283
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About this book

A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome and crossed; motivates bodies to climb over; and threatens physical harm. This book critically examines a range of cultural performances produced in relation to the tensions and movements of/about the borders dividing North America, including the Caribbean.

Reviews

“Featuring scholars from Cultural, Visual and Performance Studies, as well as sociology and ethnomusicology, the book focuses on the notion of borderlands as it manifests in and through performance. … Performance in the Borderlands is an extremely rich, dense, well-informed and very informative volume. Covering a multiplicity of topics in various border zones, these essays offer fascinating new scholarship in the fields of Border and Performance Studies.” (Astrid M. Fellner, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 4 (2), November, 2016)

'... offers an exciting series of perspectives, readings, and cross-disciplinary engagements with this most important theme and makes a persuasive case for the contribution performance studies can make to the wider border studies field... This volume will be of interest to scholars and students in performance, cultural and border studies: it presents a rich, rewarding, and timely series of readings which will add considerably to the potentialities and provocations of work in this field.' - Sophie Nield, Contemporary Theatre Review

Editors and Affiliations

  • Ohio State University, USA

    Ramón H. Rivera-Servera

  • Northwestern University, USA

    Harvey Young

About the editors

PATRICK ANDERSON, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego, USA LOWELL FIET, Professor of English, University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras, Puerto Rico E. PATRICK JOHNSON, Professor and Chair of the Department of Performance Studies, Northwestern University, USA RIC KNOWLES, Professor of Theatre Studies, University of Guelph, Canada JOSH KUN, Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, USA ENG-BENG LIM, Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance, Brown University, USA ALEJANDRO MADRID, Associate Professor, Department of Latino and Latin American Studies, University of Illinois-Chicago, USA PAIGE MCGINLEY, Assistant Professor of Theater Studies, American Studies, and African American Studies, Yale University, USA ANA PUGA, Assistant Professor of Theatre, Ohio State University, USA JOSÉ MANUEL VALENZUELA ARCE, Professor and Researcher, Department of Cultural Studies, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico PATRICIA YBARRA, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance, Brown University, USA

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