{"product_id":"the-archive-and-the-repertoire-performing-cultural-memory-in-the-americas-paperback","title":"The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDiana Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Archive and the Repertoire\u003c\/i\u003e preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. From plays to official events to grassroots protests, performance, she argues, must be taken seriously as a means of storing and transmitting knowledge. Taylor reveals how the repertoire of embodied memory--conveyed in gestures, the spoken word, movement, dance, song, and other performances--offers alternative perspectives to those derived from the written archive and is particularly useful to a reconsideration of historical processes of transnational contact. \u003ci\u003eThe Archive and the Repertoire\u003c\/i\u003e invites a remapping of the Americas based on traditions of embodied practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining various genres of performance including demonstrations by the children of the disappeared in Argentina, the Peruvian theatre group Yuyachkani, and televised astrological readings by Univision personality Walter Mercado, Taylor explores how the archive and the repertoire work together to make political claims, transmit traumatic memory, and forge a new sense of cultural identity. Through her consideration of performances such as Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña's show \u003ci\u003eTwo Undiscovered Amerindians Visit . . ., \u003c\/i\u003eTaylor illuminates how scenarios of discovery and conquest haunt the Americas, trapping even those who attempt to dismantle them. Meditating on events like those of September 11, 2001 and media representations of them, she examines both the crucial role of performance in contemporary culture and her own role as witness to and participant in hemispheric dramas. \u003ci\u003eThe Archive and the Repertoire\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling demonstration of the many ways that the study of performance enables a deeper understanding of the past and present, of ourselves and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Archive and the Repertoire\" is an original and brilliant contribution. It will take the study of Latin American performance to a new level with its attention not only to politics and to history and its consequences, but also to memory, the media, and aesthetic\/political practices that take into account the hemispheric and the global.\"--Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, author of \"The Wounded Heart: Writing on Cherrie Moraga\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiana 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 \u003ci\u003eHoly Terrors: Latin American Women Perform \u003c\/i\u003e(coedited with Roselyn Costantino), \u003ci\u003e Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's \"Dirty War,\" \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNegotiating Performance: Gender, Sexuality, and Theatricality in Latin\/o America \u003c\/i\u003e(with Juan Villegas)\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e all also published by Duke University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 9.06 x 5.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 12, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51988471382317,"sku":"9780822331230","price":43.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/L0ttcTM1czExRnB3bHRobmNLMFQ1QT09.webp?v=1776217658","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-archive-and-the-repertoire-performing-cultural-memory-in-the-americas-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}