¡Presente! : The Politics of Presence

Name: ¡Presente! : The Politics of Presence
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 1478009446
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ISBN: 9781478009443

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14 Aug, 2020

By Diana Taylor (author)

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 a...

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ISBN-10:

1478009446

ISBN-13:

9781478009443

Publisher

Duke University Press

Dimensions

8.40 X 5.90 X 0.80 inches

Language

English

Description

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.

Product Details

ISBN-10

:1478009446

ISBN-13

:9781478009443

Publisher

:Duke University Press

Publication date

: 14 Aug, 2020

Editorial Reviews

"Taylor gives us a deeply captivating book that takes us on a journey across a substantial period, across sites, archives and personal memories. This book is lucidly written and is highly accessible, providing a rich treasure trove of stories and concepts for scholars in performance studies, Latin American and hemispheric studies, Native Studies, Latinx, Chicana/o studies, de- and anticolonial studies, memory, affect, trauma, gender, queer and trans studies. The readers will appreciate and find particularly instructive its method for writing presences, conceptual interventions as well as provocations."--Adwaita Banerjee "Space and Polity" (9/12/2023 12:00:00 AM)

About the Author

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.

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