Holy Terrors Latin American Women Perform

Name: Holy Terrors Latin American Women Perform
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ISBN: 9780822332275

ISBN-10: 0822332272

ISBN-13: 9780822332275

Edition: 2003

Authors: Diana Taylor, Roselyn Costantino

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'Holy Terrors' presents exemplary original work by 14 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.

Book details

List price: $119.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 12/24/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.84" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Unimagined Communities



Manifesto 2000 of Feminine Humor



From the Waist Down



What is Diana Raznovich Laughing At?



Strip



Excerpts from Lumperica (E. Luminata): "From Her Forgetfulness Project" and "Dress Rehearsal"



Diamela Eltit: Performing Action in Dictatorial Chile



Selections from Writings on Essential Theatre



Casa



The Gestural Art of Reclaiming Utopia: Denise Stoklos at Play with the Hysterical-Historical



Selected Lyrics and Monologue Fragments



Politics and Culture in a Diva's Diversion: The Body of Astrid Hadad in Performance



Sor Juana in Prison: A Virtual Pageant Play



Nahuatlismo: The Aztec Acting Method



The Conquest According to La Malinche



Excerpts from "Genesis," "Barbie: The Revenge of the Devil,' and "Censorship: The Bald Rat in the Garbage"



Wrestling the Phallus, Resisting Amnesia: The Body Politics of Chilanga Performance Artists



The Agony of Ecstasy: Four One-Act Plays on a Single Theme



A Desperate Woman: A Play in Two Acts



Eso si pasa aqui: Indigenous Women Performing Revoultions in Mayan Chiapas



Teatro la mascara: Twenty-Eight Years of Invisibilized Theatre



Fragments of Memory



Excerpts from Antigona



Between Theatre and Performance Translation and photos



How Complex Being Is, or The Complex of Being



Teresa Hernandez vs. the Puerto Rican Complex Vivian Martinez Tabares, Translated



Performing Greater Cuba: Tania Bruguera and the Burden of Guilt



Selected Bibliography


Contributors