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19 avril 2018

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9780822371939

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

28 Mo

In Abject Performances Leticia Alvarado draws out the irreverent, disruptive aesthetic strategies used by Latino artists and cultural producers who shun standards of respectability that are typically used to conjure concrete minority identities. In place of works imbued with pride, redemption, or celebration, artists such as Ana Mendieta, Nao Bustamante, and the Chicano art collective known as Asco employ negative affects-shame, disgust, and unbelonging-to capture experiences that lie at the edge of the mainstream, inspirational Latino-centered social justice struggles. Drawing from a diverse expressive archive that ranges from performance art to performative testimonies of personal faith-based subjection, Alvarado illuminates modes of community formation and social critique defined by a refusal of identitarian coherence that nonetheless coalesce into Latino affiliation and possibility.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

19 avril 2018

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822371939

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

28 Mo

A B J E C Tperformances

Dissident Acts

A series edited by Macarena GomezBarris and Diana Taylor

A B J E C Tperformances A E S T H E T I C S T R A T E G I E S I NL A T I N O C U L T U R A LP R O D U C T I O N

L E T I C I A A L V A R A D O

Duke University Press / Durham and London / 2018

Printed in the United States of America on acidfree paper∞

Typeset in Scala Pro by Copperline Book Services, Inc.

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Alvarado, Leticia, [date] author.

Title: Abject performances : aesthetic strategies in Latino

cultural production / Leticia Alvarado.

Description: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018. | Series:

Dissident acts | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identiﬁers:lccn2017045246 (print) |lccn2017051045 (ebook)

isbn9780822371939 (ebook)

isbn9780822370635 (hardcover : alk. paper)

isbn9780822370789 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects:lcsh: Hispanic American mass media—Social aspects. |

Hispanic American arts—Social aspects. | Hispanic Americans

and mass media. | Mass media and culture.

Classiﬁcation:lcc p94.5.h58(ebook) |lcc p94.5.h58A48

2018 (print) |ddc302.2308968/073—dc23

lcrecord available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017045246

Cover art: Xandra Ibarra with Sophia Wang,Untitled(Skins), 2015–2016. Performance documentation. Photograph by Robbie Sweeny.

For the only people I ever want to see on purpose:

Sydney, Lu, and Mika.

And also for JEM. Love, a Hologram.

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Contents

ix Acknowledgments

1 Introduction Sublime Abjection

251 Chapter Other Desires: Ana Mendieta’s Abject Imaginings

572 Chapter Phantom Assholes: Asco’s Affective Vortex

89 Chapter 3 Of Betties Decorous and Abject:Ugly Betty’s America la fea and Nao Bustamante’s America la bella

131 Chapter 4 Arriving at Apostasy: Performative Testimonies of Ambivalent Belonging

161 Conclusion Abject Embodiment

167193209

Notes Bibliography Index

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Acknowledgments

i a m humbled by t he a moun t ofsupport that brought this book tofruition. My own institution, Brown University, generously provided ﬁnancial sup port to assist with publication costs and supported leave time supplemented by a Ford Foundation postdoctoral fellowship, providing invaluable manu script revision time. I am thankful to Chon Noriega and the Chicano Stud ies Research Center at University of California, Los Angeles, for serving as my host during my fellowship year. At the dissertation stage, the support of a Smithsonian Institution Latino Studies dissertation fellowship, under the mentorship of Marvette Pérez and Liza Kirwin at the National Museum of American History and Smithsonian Archives of American Art respec tively, allowed me dedicated time away from teaching to focus on archival re search and the writing of the bulk of my dissertation. A temporary teaching appointment at Wesleyan provided the ﬁnancial support to cover day care

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