Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- 22 Undocumented Immigration in Latina/o Literature
- 23 Latina Feminist Theory and Writing
- 24 Invisible No More
- 25 Latina/o Life Narratives
- 26 Poetics of the “Majority Minority”
- 27 The Quisqueya Diaspora
- 28 Listening to Literature
- 29 Brazuca Literature
- 30 Staging Latinidad and Interrogating Neoliberalism in Contemporary Latina/o Performance and Border Art
- 31 Trans-American Popular Forms of Latina/o Literature
- 32 Trauma, Translation, and Migration in the Crossfire of the Americas
- 33 The Mesoamerican Corridor, Central American Transits, and Latina/o Becomings
- 34 Differential Visions
- 35 Temporal Borderlands
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
30 - Staging Latinidad and Interrogating Neoliberalism in Contemporary Latina/o Performance and Border Art
from Part IV - Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2018
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- 22 Undocumented Immigration in Latina/o Literature
- 23 Latina Feminist Theory and Writing
- 24 Invisible No More
- 25 Latina/o Life Narratives
- 26 Poetics of the “Majority Minority”
- 27 The Quisqueya Diaspora
- 28 Listening to Literature
- 29 Brazuca Literature
- 30 Staging Latinidad and Interrogating Neoliberalism in Contemporary Latina/o Performance and Border Art
- 31 Trans-American Popular Forms of Latina/o Literature
- 32 Trauma, Translation, and Migration in the Crossfire of the Americas
- 33 The Mesoamerican Corridor, Central American Transits, and Latina/o Becomings
- 34 Differential Visions
- 35 Temporal Borderlands
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
This essay centers the concept of performance through the discourses of latinidad and neoliberalism and opens with a brief discussion of a Javier Téllez performance intervention along the US-Mexico border, One flew over the Void. In doing so, it calls into question borders and how they are constructed or upheld by neoliberal economic and social regimes. It is a starting point to think about a significant number of performative artistic practices since the 1990s produced by Latinas/os, or from within the discourse of critical Latina/o studies, that interrogate neoliberalism. Moving beyond the geography of the border, another site examined is body that has been gendered female and is marked as latina. Focusing on works by Nao Bustamante, Coco Fusco, Lorena Wolffer, and Astrid Hadad, the article pays attention to embodied performances that can also be described as feminist and queer interrogations of neoliberalism and that move within and through a transnational circuit. In a sense site-specific work on and about the border serves as a stage for pushing our understanding of latinidad, which is not solely constituted through the experiences of Latinas/os in the United States, but always in relation to what is happening across borders and throughout the hemisphere and, in many instances, via the body of women.
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- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature , pp. 621 - 635Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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