Taylor ¡Presente!

The Politics of Presence
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0889-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

Reihe: Dissident Acts

Diana Taylor offers the theory of presente as a model of standing by and with victims of structural and endemic violence by being physically and politically present in situations where it seems that nothing can be done.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, Diana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: Jumping the Fence ix
1. ¡Presente! 1
2. Enacting Refusal: Political Animatives 45
3. Camino Largo: The Zapatistas' Long Road toward Autonomy 67
4. Making Presence 105
5. Traumatic Memes 127
6. We Have Always Been Queer 153
7. Tortuous Routes: Four Walks through Villa Grimaldi 175
8. Dead Capital 203
9. The Decision Dilemma 226
Epilogue 245
Notes 251
Bibliography 299
Index 321

Über Autor(innen)

Diana Taylor is University Professor and Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University. She is the author and editor of several books, including Performance; The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas; and Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's “Dirty War,” all also published by Duke University Press. Taylor was founding director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics from 1998 to 2020. In 2018 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.