Performances of spiral time /

"Performances of Spiral Time is an English translation of Leda Maria Martins' Performances do tempo espiralar, originally published in Portuguese in 2021. A contemporary theorist of Afro-Brazilian religious performance, Martins brings together a series of compositions on what she terms &qu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Martins, Leda Maria (Author)
Other Authors:	Barros, Bruna (Translator), Oliveira, Jess (Translator), Moten, Fred (writer of foreword.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.
Series:	Dissident acts. Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
Subjects:	Time > Philosophy. Space and time. Performance art. Body art. Temps > Philosophie. Manœuvre artistique. Art corporel. body art (visual works, performance)

Table of Contents:

Theosophies, Times, and Theories
The Curved Times of Memory
Poetics of Oralitura
My Destiny Is to Sing, the Mythopoetic Gesta of the Reinados
A Canvas-Body, a Firefly Poetics
Ntangu: On Spiral Time, Condensations