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In The Archive and the Repertoire 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. The Archive and the Repertoire invites a remapping of the Americas based on traditions of embodied practice.Examining 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 Gomez-Pena's show Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit . . . , Taylor 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. The Archive and the Repertoire 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.

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Sociologie, société et politique

Americas

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Publié par	Duke University Press
Date de parution	12 septembre 2003
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780822385318
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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THE ARCHIVE AND THE REPERTOIRE

A John Hope Franklin Center Book

THE ARCHIVE AND THE REPERTOIRE

Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas

                  

Diana Taylor

                  

rd printing, 

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 

by Tseng Information Systems

Typeset in Trump Medieval

Library of Congress Cataloging-

in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

Acknowledgments for the use of copyrighted material appear on

page  and constitute an extension of the copyright page.

To Susanita and Halfcito,

one more oﬀering for your altar

And to Marina,

who helps me light the candles

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations, ix

Who, When, What, Why, xiii

1.Acts of Transfer, 

2.Scenarios of Discovery: Reﬂections on Performance and Ethnography, 

3.Memory as Cultural Practice: Mestizaje, Hybridity, Transculturation, 

4.La Raza Cosmética: Walter Mercado Performs Latino Psychic Space, 

5.False Identiﬁcations: Minority Populations Mourn Diana, 

6.‘‘You Are Here’’: H.I.J.O.S. and theof Performance, 

7.Staging Traumatic Memory: Yuyachkani, 

8.Denise Stoklos: The Politics of Decipherability, 

9.Lost in the Field of Vision: Witnessing September , 

10.Hemispheric Performances, 

Notes, 

Bibliography, 

Index, 

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

. ‘‘Perwhat Studies?’’,  . Drawing by Alberto Beltrán,  . Bernardino de Sahagún,Florentine Codex,  . Miguel Sánchez, Virgin of Guadalupe,  . Mena,Imagen de la Virgen de Guadalupe con las armas mexicanas y vista de la Plaza Mayor de México,  . José de Ribera y Argomanis,Imagen de jura de la Virgen de Guadalupe, ,  . Astrid Hadad as Coatlicue, inHeavy Nopal,  . Theodoro de Bry, ‘‘Cólon cuando llegó a la India por primera vez . . . ,’’ fromDas Vierdte Buch Von Der Neuwen Welt,,  . Map of Tenochtitlán, a woodcut probably made for Cortés, ,  . View from the ruins of the Templo Mayor,  . Andrés de Islas,De Español, e India, nace mestizo,,  . Flora González as La Intermediaria inYo también hablo de la rosa, directed by Diana Taylor, Teatro Cuatro, New York, ,  , . Doña Marina negotiates between the indigenous groups and the Spaniards, from Bernardino de Sahagún,Florentine Codex,  . Walter Mercado, 