The archive and the repertoire performing cultural memory in the Americas / Diana Taylor.

Author/creator Taylor, Diana, 1950-
Other author American Council of Learned Societies.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press,
Descriptionxx, 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book
Subjects
Memory--Social aspects. --America.
Performance art--Political aspects. --America.
Performing arts--Political aspects. --America.
North and south.
Postcolonialism--America.
Postcolonialism and the arts--America.
Ethnicity--America.
Minorities--America. --Social conditions.
America--Civilization.
America--Ethnic relations.

Contents Who, when, what, why -- Acts of transfer -- Scenarios of discovery : reflections on performance and ethnography -- Cultural memory and identity : mestizaje, hybridity, transculturation -- La raza cosmética : Walter Mercado performs Latino psychic space -- False identifications : minority populations mourn Diana -- "You are here" : hijos and the DNA of performance -- Staging traumatic memory : Yuyachkani -- Denise Stoklos : the politics of decipherability -- Lost in the field of vision : witnessing 9/11 -- Hemispheric performances.
General note"A John Hope Franklin Center book"--Half t.p.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [303]-320) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2003006808
ISBN0822331365 (alk. paper)
ISBN0822331233 (pbk. : alk. paper)