Holy Terrors

Latin American Women Perform

Autor: Taylor, Diana; Costantino, Roselyn; Damasceno, Leslie; Raznovich, Diana
Editor: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822332275
eISBN Pdf: 9780822385325
Lloc de publicació: Durham , United States
Any de publicació digital: 2003
Mes: Desembre
Pàgines: 464
DDC: 862/.6099287/098
Idioma: Anglés

Descripció

Holy Terrors presents exemplary original work by fourteen of Latin America’s foremost contemporary women theatre and performance artists. Many of the pieces—including one-act plays, manifestos, and lyrics—appear in English for the first time. From Griselda Gambaro, Argentina's most widely recognized playwright, to such renowned performers as Brazil's Denise Stoklos and Mexico’s Jesusa Rodríguez, these women are involved in some of Latin America's most important aesthetic and political movements. Of varied racial and ethnic backgrounds, they come from across Latin America—Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Peru, and Cuba. This volume is generously illustrated with over seventy images. A number of the performance pieces are complemented by essays providing context and analysis.

The performance pieces in Holy Terrors are powerful testimonies to the artists' political and personal struggles. These women confront patriarchy, racism, and repressive government regimes and challenge brutality and corruption through a variety of artistic genres. Several have formed theatre collectives—among them FOMMA (a Mayan women’s theatre company in Chiapas) and El Teatro de la máscara in Colombia. Some draw from cabaret and ‘frivolous’ theatre traditions to create intense and humorous performances that challenge church and state. Engaging in self-mutilation and abandoning traditional dress, others use their bodies as the platforms on which to stage their defiant critiques of injustice. Holy Terrors is a unique English-language presentation of some of Latin America's fiercest, most provocative art.

Contributors
Sabina Berman
Tania Bruguera
Petrona de la Cruz Cruz
Diamela Eltit
Griselda Gambaro
Astrid Hadad
Teresa Hernández
Rosa Luisa Márquez
Teresa Ralli
Diana Raznovich
Jesusa Rodríguez
Denise Stoklos
Katia Tirado
Ema Villanueva

Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Unimagined Communities
DIANA RAZNOVICH (Argentina)
- Manifesto 2000 of Feminine Humor
- From the Waist Down
- What Is Diana Raznovich Laughing At?
GRISELDA GAMBARO (Argentina)
- Strip
DIAMELA ELTIT (Chile)
- Excerpts from Lumpérica (E. Luminata): ‘‘From Her Forgetfulness Project’’ and ‘‘Dress Rehearsal’’
- Diamela Eltit: Performing Action in Dictatorial Chile
DENISE STOKLOS (Brazil)
- Selections from Writings on Essential Theatre
- Casa
- The Gestural Art of Reclaiming Utopia: Denise Stoklos at Play with the Hysterical-Historical
ASTRID HADAD (Mexico)
- Selected Lyrics and Monologue Fragments
- Politics and Culture in a Diva’s Diversion: The Body of Astrid Hadad in Performance
JESUSA RODRÍGUEZ (Mexico)
- Sor Juana in Prison: A Virtual Pageant Play
- Nahuatlismo: The Aztec Acting Method
- The Conquest According to La Malinche
- Excerpts from ‘‘Genesis,’’ ‘‘Barbie: The Revenge of the Devil,’’ and ‘‘Censorship: The Bald Rat in the Garbage’’
KATIA TIRADO AND EMA VILLANUEVA (Mexico)
- Wrestling the Phallus, Resisting Amnesia: The Body Politics of Chilanga Performance Artists
SABINA BERMAN (Mexico)
- The Agony of Ecstasy: Four One-Act Plays on a Single Theme
PETRONA DE LA CRUZ CRUZ (Mexico)
- A Desperate Woman: A Play in Two Acts
- Eso sí pasa aquí: Indigenous Women Performing Revolutions in Mayan Chiapas
TEATRO LA MÁSCARA (Colombia)
- Teatro la máscara: Twenty-Eight Years of Invisibilized Theatre
TERESA RALLI (Peru)
- Fragments of Memory
- Excerpts from Antígona
ROSA LUISA MÁRQUEZ (Puerto Rico)
- Between Theatre and Performance
TERESA HERNÁNDEZ (Puerto Rico)
- How Complex Being Is, or, The Complex of Being
- Teresa Hernández vs. the Puerto Rican Complex
TANIA BRUGUERA (Cuba)
- Performing Greater Cuba: Tania Bruguera and the Burden of Guilt
Selected Bibliography
Contributors