Performance in the Borderlands [Hardcover]

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.Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Border Moves; R.H.Rivera-Servera & H.Young Playing the Fence, Listening to the Line: Sound, Sound Art, and Acoustic Politics at the US-Mexico Border; J.Kun Transnational Cultural Translations and the Meaning of Danz?n across Borders; A.Madrid 'Havana Isn't Waiting: Staging Travel during Cuba's Special Period; P.Ybarra 'Architecture is not Justice': Seeing Guant?namo Bay; P.Anderson Crossing Hispaniola: Cultural Erotics at the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands; R.H.Rivera-Servera 'The Magic of Song!': John Lomax, Huddie Ledbetter, and the Staging of Circulation; P.A.McGinley Border Intellectual: Performing Identity at the Crossroads; E.P.Johnson Calling off the Border Patrol; R.Knowles Transborder Dance: Choreographies by Minerva Tapia; J.M.Valenzuela The Epistemology of the Minor Native in Transcolonial Border Zones; E.-B.Lim Remembering Genocide within Our Borders: Trail of Tears& US Museum Culture; H.Young Poor Enrique and Poor Mar?a, Or, the Political Economy of Suffering in Two Migrant Melodramas; A.E.Puga New Tropicalism: Performance on the Shifting Borders of Caribbean Disappearance; L.Fiet Performance in the Borderlands Roundtable;  P.Anderson, L.Fiet, R.Knowles, E.-B.Lim, P.A.McGinley, A.E.Puga, R.H.Rivera-Servera, P.Ybarra &  H.Young Index

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 informalL