The remarkably effective way in which combines personal story with analytic reflection is a fitting demonstration of the usefulness that can result from being able to sustain an awareness of one's spatio-temporal role as an observer even as one gets lost in the findings of archival discovery." - Dianna Niebylski, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies "The book is itself both a performance and a contribution to the archive. Its most notable contribution is undoubtedly a defense of the growing field of performance studies as a tool of decolonization." - Katherine M. "Taylor's work is an important step in acknowledging marginalized expressions of cultural memory.
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"Persuasively argued and elegantly theorized, The Archive and the Repertoire constitutes a necessary intervention in performance scholarship." - Lisa Wolford Wylam, Theatre Research International Taylor has masterfully brought together, in a work that is an act of performance itself, both the contradictions and the possibilities of performance studies and the histories and trajectories of Latin/o American hemispheric studies into a 'loosely structured arrangement.'" - Alberto Guevara, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
"One of the most wide-ranging studies of performance in and of the Americas today. and in its insistence on exploring non-dominant forms of processing experience, Taylor's book is a crucial contribution to the emerging cartographies of global Latin/o American cultures." - Juan Poblette, The Americas "A timely collection of essays.Taylor weaves together insights, examples, and critical strategies from and her exemplary book makes a major contribution to both." - Marvin Carlson, TDR: The Drama Review The Archive and the Repertoire is a compelling demonstration of the many ways that the study of performance enables a deeper understanding of the past and present, of ourselves and others. Meditating on events like those of Septemand media representations of them, she examines both the crucial role of performance in contemporary culture and her own role as witness to and participant in hemispheric dramas. , Taylor illuminates how scenarios of discovery and conquest haunt the Americas, trapping even those who attempt to dismantle them. Through her consideration of performances such as Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s show Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit. The Archive and the Repertoire invites a remapping of the Americas based on traditions of embodied practice.Įxamining various genres of performance including demonstrations by the children of the disappeared in Argentina, the Peruvian theatre group Yuyachkani, and televised astrological readings by Univision personality Walter Mercado, Taylor explores how the archive and the repertoire work together to make political claims, transmit traumatic memory, and forge a new sense of cultural identity. Taylor reveals how the repertoire of embodied memory-conveyed in gestures, the spoken word, movement, dance, song, and other performances-offers alternative perspectives to those derived from the written archive and is particularly useful to a reconsideration of historical processes of transnational contact. From plays to official events to grassroots protests, performance, she argues, must be taken seriously as a means of storing and transmitting knowledge. In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. Labor and Working-Class History Association.Association for Middle East Women's Studies.
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