Precarious Forms : Performing Utopia in the Neoliberal Americas /
"Precarious Forms: Performing Utopia in the Neoliberal Americas explores how performance art and poetry transmit utopian desires, even in the bleakest of times. Candice Amich argues that utopian longing in the neoliberal Americas paradoxically arises from the material conditions of socioeconomi...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Evanston, Illinois :
Northwestern University Press,
2020.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "Precarious Forms: Performing Utopia in the Neoliberal Americas explores how performance art and poetry transmit utopian desires, even in the bleakest of times. Candice Amich argues that utopian longing in the neoliberal Americas paradoxically arises from the material conditions of socioeconomic crisis. Working across national, linguistic, and generic boundaries, Amich identifies new political and affective modes of reception in her examination of resistant art forms. She locates texts embedded in the activist struggles of the global south, where neoliberal extraction and exploitation most palpably reanimate the colonial and imperial legacies of earlier stages of capitalism"-- |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (227 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780810141841 |