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  title info:
    title: Freak performances
    sub title: dissidence in Latin American theater
  name:
    name part: Santana, Analola
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)
    role:
      role term: issuing body.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: The figure of the freak as perceived by the Western gaze has always been a part of the Latin American imaginary, from the letters that Columbus wrote about his encounters with dog-faced people to Shakespeare's Caliban. The freak acquires greater significance in a globalized, neoliberal world that defines the "abnormal" as one who does not conform mentally, physically, or emotionally and is unable or unwilling to follow the economic and cultural norms of the institutions in power. Freak Performances examines the continuing effects of colonialism on modern Latin American identities, with a particular focus on the way it has constructed the body of the other through performance. Theater questions the representations of these bodies, as it enables the empowerment of the silenced other; the freak as a spectacle of otherness finds in performance an opportunity for re-appropriation by artists resisting the dominant authority. Through an analysis of experimental theater, dance theater, performance art, and gallery-based installation art across eight countries, Analola Santana explores the theoretical issues shaped by the encounters and negotiations between different bodies in the current Latin American landscape.
  table of contents: Introduction. The Freak Onstage: From Colonialism to Neoliberalism -- From Monster to Freak: A Latin American Genealogy of Corporeal Difference -- Danger Unleashed: The Pathology of Difference as Deviance in the Latin American Neoliberal State -- The Savage Exotic: Gender and Class in the Construction of Freakery -- Violence and Politics on the Freak: The Perversion of Citizenship -- Conclusions
  note: Analola Santana.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: cl-----
  subject:
    topic: Theater
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: Latin America
  subject:
    topic: Theater and society
    geographic: Latin America
  subject:
    topic: Monsters in the theater
  subject:
    topic: Other (Philosophy) in the performing arts
  subject:
    topic: Postcolonialism
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Latin America
  classification: PN2445
  identifier: 9780472124077
  identifier: 9780472073917
  identifier: 9780472053919
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: MiU
    record creation date: 180827
    record change date: 20221129150726.6
    record identifier: in00004606364
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng