Holy Terrors (eBook, PDF)

Latin American Women Perform
Redaktion: Diana Taylor, Taylor

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Holy Terrors presents exemplary original work by fourteen of Latin America's foremost contemporary women theatre and performance artists. Many of the pieces-including one-act plays, manifestos, and lyrics-appear in English for the first time. From Griselda Gambaro, Argentina's most widely recognized playwright, to such renowned performers as Brazil's Denise Stoklos and Mexico's Jesusa Rodriguez, these women are involved in some of Latin America's most important aesthetic and political movements. Of varied racial and ethnic backgrounds, they come from across Latin America-Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Peru, and Cuba. This volume is generously illustrated with over seventy images. A number of the performance pieces are complemented by essays providing context and analysis.The performance pieces in Holy Terrors are powerful testimonies to the artists' political and personal struggles. These women confront patriarchy, racism, and repressive government regimes and challenge brutality and corruption through a variety of artistic genres. Several have formed theatre collectives-among them FOMMA (a Mayan women's theatre company in Chiapas) and El Teatro de la mascara in Colombia. Some draw from cabaret and 'frivolous' theatre traditions to create intense and humorous performances that challenge church and state. Engaging in self-mutilation and abandoning traditional dress, others use their bodies as the platforms on which to stage their defiant critiques of injustice. Holy Terrors is a unique English-language presentation of some of Latin America's fiercest, most provocative art.ContributorsSabina BermanTania BrugueraPetrona de la Cruz CruzDiamela EltitGriselda GambaroAstrid HadadTeresa HernandezRosa Luisa MarquezTeresa RalliDiana RaznovichJesusa RodriguezDenise StoklosKatia TiradoEma Villanueva

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822385325
• Artikelnr.: 54817218

Autorenporträt

Diana Taylor is Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish and Director of the Hemispheric Institute on Performance and Politics at New York University. Among her books are The Archive and the Repertoire: Cultural Memory and Performance in the Americas, Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina’s “Dirty War,” and Negotiating Performance: Gender, Sexuality, and Theatricality in Latin/o America, all published by Duke University Press. Roselyn Costantino is Associate Professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Roselyn Costantino is Associate Professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies at Pennsylvania State University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Preface xiii
Unimagined Communities / Diana Taylor and Roselyn Costantino 1
Diana Raznovich (Argentina) 25
Manifesto 2000 of Feminine Humor / Translated by Marlene Ramirez-Cancio and
Shanna Lorenz 27
From the Waist Down / Translated by Shanna Lorenz 43
What is Diana Raznovich Laughing At? / Diana Taylor 73
Griselda Gambaro (Argentina) 93
Strip / Translated by Marguerite Feitlowitz 95
Diamela Eltit (Chile) 105
Excerpts from Lumperica (E. Luminata): "From Her Forgetfulness Project" and
"Dress Rehearsal" / Translated by Ronald Christ 107
Diamela Eltit: Performing Action in Dictatorial Chile/ Robert Neustadt 117
Denise Stoklos (Brazil) 135
Selections from Writings on Essential Theatre/ Translated by Diana Taylor
137
Casa / Translated by Denise Stoklos and Diana Taylor 140
The Gestural Art of Reclaiming Utopia: Denise Stoklos at Play with the
Hysterical-Historical / Leslie Damasceno 152
Astrid Hadad (Mexico) 179
Selected Lyrics and Monologue Fragments / Translated by Roselyn Costantino
and Lorna Scott 181
Politics and Culture in a Diva's Diversion: The Body of Astrid Hadad in
Performance / Roselyn Costantino 187
Jesusa Rodriguez (Mexico) 209
Sor Juana in Prison: A Virtual Pageant Play / Translated by Diana Taylor
with Marlene Ramirez-Cancio 211
Nahuatlismo: The Aztec Acting Method / Translated by Marlene Ramirez-Cancio
227
The Conquest According to La Malinche / Translated by Marlene
Ramirez-Cancio 231
Excerpts from "Genesis," "Barbie: The Revenge of the Devil,' and
"Censorship: The Bald Rat in the Garbage" / Translated by Roselyn
Costantino 235
Katia Tirado and Ema Villanueva (Mexico) 245
Wrestling the Phallus, Resisting Amnesia: The Body Politics of Chilanga
Performance Artists / Antonio Prieto Stambaugh 247
Sabina Berman (Mexico) 275
The Agony of Ecstasy: Four One-Act Plays on a Single Theme / Translated by
Adam Versenyi 279
Petrona de la Cruz Cruz (Mexico) 291
A Desperate Woman: A Play in Two Acts / Translated by Shanna Lorenz 293
Eso si pasa aqui: Indigenous Women Performing Revoultions in Mayan Chiapas
/ Teresa Marrero 311
Teatro la Mascara (Colombia) 331
Teatro la mascara: Twenty-Eight Years of Invisibilized Theatre / Marlene
Ramirez-Cancio 333
Teresa Ralli (Peru) 353
Fragments of Memory / Translated by Margaret Carson 355
Excerpts from Antigona / Jose Watanabe, Translated by Margaret Carson 365
Rosa Luisa Marquez (Puerto Rico) 371
Between Theatre and Performance / Translation and photos by Miguel
Villefane 373
Teresa Hernandez (Puerto Rico) 385
How Complex Being Is, or The Complex of Being / Translated by Marlene
Ramirez-Cancio 387
Teresa Hernandez vs. the Puerto Rican Complex / Vivian Martinez Tabares,
Translated by Margaret Carson 394
Tania Bruguera (Cuba) 399
Performing Greater Cuba: Tania Bruguera and the Burden of Guilt / Jose
Munoz 401
Selected Bibliography 417
Contributors 441