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Holy Terrors
Latin American Women Perform
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2003
About this book
Translations of texts by important Latin American women playwrights, and performance artists, together with essays about their work.
Author / Editor information
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.
Reviews
“The editors have done a remarkable job in assembling an important group of women playwrights and performers whose work remains terribly under publicized. The work included in this volume provides an excellent introduction to the diverse ways Latin American women have used the performing arts to engage the particular political and cultural conditions under which they live.”—David Román, author of Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS
“We can’t have theater if we have nothing to say. I was told that we wouldn’t have Coltrane if Miles Davis hadn’t let him play at his own gig, and that Miles let him play a long time, because he could see that Coltrane had a lot to say. Traveling with Diana, which I have had the great fortune to do, and being introduced to these extraordinary performers, both on these pages, and live and in person was flat-out a life-altering experience. This book turns us on to our cousin Americans and to their passion, their skill, their intellect, their purpose, their resolve. To go to music again, I think of Thelonius Monk, who said, ‘The cats I like are the cats who take chances.’ These are chancing cats, and enrapturing ones.”—Anna Deavere Smith
“Holy Terrors . . . reaches beyond the major metropoles where many of its artists work, into various political squabbles throughout the hemisphere. . . . [I]nnovative scholarship. Its emergence marks just how much the landscape of Latin American theater and performance has changed over the past ten years and signals how much it could change in the next ten.”
-- Patricia Ybarra Theater
“[A]n imaginary Latin America that might otherwise go unnoticed outside of the region has been made available for the first time to English-speaking readers. . . . A key accomplishment of this collection is its capacity to bring together, within the utopian space of the printed page, women from different social, ethnic, and class backgrounds, giving voice to their experience as it emerges in the most contrasting settings. . . . As an ultimate political act, the editors of Holy Terrors have sought to bridge the gap between artist and critic, thus positioning the artists’ work as an open field in which women circulate, not only as commodities, but also as agents of change.”
-- Rita De Grandis Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
“[T]he book signals new departures in the field of theatrical and performance criticism. . . .”
-- Beatriz J. Rizk Latin American Research Review
“For anyone interested in theatre and performance art—and most particularly in women’s theatre—in Latin America, this will be a fascinating collection.”
-- British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America
“For the reader who wants a broad overview of women performing in Latin America, Holy Terrors provides a sampling of some of Latin America’s most important playwrights and performers, as well as some new voices.”
-- Alexandra Fitts Bulletin of Spanish Studies
"[A] crazy quilt account of women performing theater in Latin America. . . . Holy Terrors is a work rich in ideas, history and personalities, and an important source book for learning, not only about theater in these eight Latin American countries, but also about key political issues, the risks of free expression, and the health and nearly unchartable diversity of the women's movement."
-- Martha Gies Women's Review of Books
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Preface
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Unimagined Communities
1 - Diana Raznovich (Argentina)
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Manifesto 2000 of Feminine Humor
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From the Waist Down
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What Is Diana Raznovich Laughing At?
73 - Griselda Gambaro (Argentina)
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Strip
95 - Diamela Eltit (Chile)
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Excerpts from Lumpérica (E. Luminata): ‘‘From Her Forgetfulness Project’’ and ‘‘Dress Rehearsal’’
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Diamela Eltit: Performing Action in Dictatorial Chile
117 - Denise Stoklos (Brazil)
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Selections from Writings on Essential Theatre
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Casa
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The Gestural Art of Reclaiming Utopia: Denise Stoklos at Play with the Hysterical-Historical
152 - Astrid Hadad (Mexico)
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Selected Lyrics and Monologue Fragments
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Politics and Culture in a Diva’s Diversion: The Body of Astrid Hadad in Performance
187 - Jesusa Rodriguez (Mexico)
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Sor Juana in Prison: A Virtual Pageant Play
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Nahuatlismo: The Aztec Acting Method
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The Conquest According to La Malinche
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Excerpts from ‘‘Genesis,’’ ‘‘Barbie: The Revenge of the Devil,’’ and ‘‘Censorship: The Bald Rat in the Garbage’’
235 - Katia Tirado And Ema Villanueva (Mexico)
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Wrestling the Phallus, Resisting Amnesia: The Body Politics of Chilanga Performance Artists
247 - Sabina Berman (Mexico)
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The Agony of Ecstasy: Four One-Act Plays on a Single Theme
279 - Petrona De La Cruz Cruz (Mexico)
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A DesperateWoman: A Play in TwoActs
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Eso sí pasa aquí: Indigenous Women Performing Revolutions in Mayan Chiapas
311 - Teatro La Mascara (Colombia)
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Teatro la máscara: Twenty-Eight Years of Invisibilized Theatre
333 - Teresa Ralli (Peru)
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Fragments of Memory
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Excerpts from Antígona
365 - Rosa Luisa Marquez (Puerto Rico)
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Between Theatre and Performance
373 - Teresa Hernandez (Puerto Rico)
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How Complex Being Is, or, The Complex of Being
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Teresa Hernández vs. the Puerto Rican Complex
394 - Tania Bruguera (Cuba)
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Performing Greater Cuba: Tania Bruguera and the Burden of Guilt
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Selected Bibliography
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Contributors
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
December 24, 2003
eBook ISBN:
9780822385325
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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464
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58 b&w photos, 19 figures
