Theatre and Cartographies of Power

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Subverting the Theatrical Map
Jimmy A. Noriega and Analola Santana
 
Part 1. Crafting Theoretical Frameworks
from beyond the US Borders
Photo Performance: Transient Corporalities
Violeta Luna
The Liminal as Constitutive of the Theatrical Event and the Concepts of Teatro-Matriz and Liminal Theatre
Jorge Dubatti
Communitas of Pain: Performativities in Mourning
Ileana Diéguez
Crisis, Tension, and Freedom: Theatre and the Baroque
Patricio Vallejo Aristizábal
A Personal Map/Living Hieroglyphs
Gustavo Ott
 
Part 2. Rethinking Histories of Geography
Remapping Bogotá: Fernando de Orbea’s Invented Narrative of Conquest
Gad Guterman
To Imagine a Nuevomexicano Theatre History
Brian Eugenio Herrera
Radical Exposure: Regina José Galindo’s Earth
Diana Taylor
Searching for Home in All the Wrong Places: Why My Nuyorican Reality Is Stateless
Migdalia Cruz
The Ambiguity of a Country That Does Not Think: Cartographic Exercise of a Gay(?) Theatre in Peru
Diego La Hoz
Siempre Norteada
Virginia Grise
 
Part 3. The Historical Body: Race and Ethnicity
Minstrels of Empire: Blackface and Black Labor in Panama, 1850–1914
Katherine Zien
Conquering a Territory, Occupying the Stage: Notes on Black Theatre and Activism in Brazil
Carlos Cortez Minchillo
From My Universal Village: The Winged Word
Conchi León
Repositioning Migration: Trabajadores desde Otro Mundo
Debra A. Castillo
The Power of Space
Elaine Romero
 
Part 4. Rewriting the Nation: Theatrical
Methodology and Experimentation
Modernity in Crisis: Enrique Buenaventura and the New Theatre
Beatriz J. Rizk
Experiences from the Center of Abya Yala
Roxana Avila Harper
Contemporary and Andean Authorship
Diego Aramburo
The Flight of the Golden Falcon: A Road into War’s Profound Sorrow
Ana Correa
Cabaret as a New Muralism
Astrid Hadad
Cuba: Changing Stages?
Eberto García Abreu
 
Part 5. Theatre in Motion: Global Networks
and Production Practices
Breaking the North-South Paradigm
Claudio Valdés Kuri
Buenos Aires Artists and Contemporary Transnational
Performance Networks: Lola Arias Transports the Real
Jean Graham-Jones
Zoot Suit in Mexico City: Mapping a New American Theatre
Alma Martinez
Latina Performance North and Transnational Acciones against Feminicide in the Americas
Natalie Alvarez
Inner Dance. Outer Joy. Autology. A Route.
Josefina Báez
The Geopolitical Challenges of Directing Bilingual Plays: From the Mainstream to the Streets
Jorge Huerta
Notes from a Geographer Manqué
Guillermo Verdecchia
 
Contributors
Index