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¡Presente!: The Politics of Presence

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Availability:In StockContributor:Diana TaylorSeries:Dissident ActsPublish date:2020-08-14Pages:344
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478009443ISBN-10:1478009446UPC:9781478009443Book Category:Art, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Performance, Latin America, Ethnic StudiesSize:8.40 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCQ68MF83G
In Presente! Diana Taylor asks what it means to be physically and politically present in situations where it seems that nothing can be done. As much an act, a word, an attitude, a theoretical intervention, and a performance pedagogy, Taylor maps presente! at work in scenarios ranging from conquest, through colonial enactments and resistance movements, to present moments of capitalist extractivism and forced migration in the Americas. Presente!-present among, with, and to; a walking and talking with others; an ontological and epistemic reflection on presence and subjectivity as participatory and relational, founded on mutual recognition-requires rethinking and unlearning in ways that challenge colonial epistemologies. Showing how knowledge is not something to be harvested but a process of being, knowing, and acting with others, Taylor models a way for scholarship to be present in political struggles.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478009443ISBN-10:1478009446UPC:9781478009443Book Category:Art, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Performance, Latin America, Ethnic StudiesSize:8.40 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCQ68MF83G
Diana Taylor is University Professor and Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University. She is the author and editor of several books, including Performance; The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas; and Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's "Dirty War," all also published by Duke University Press. Taylor was founding director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics from 1998 to 2020. In 2018 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Publisher: Duke University Press

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