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Taylor, Diana, 1950-

The archive and the repertoire : performing cultural memory in the Americas / Diana Taylor. - xx, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"A John Hope Franklin Center book"--Half t.p.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-320) and index.

Who, when, what, why -- Acts of transfer -- Scenarios of discovery : reflections on performance and ethnography -- Cultural memory and identity : mestizaje, hybridity, transculturation -- La raza cosmética : Walter Mercado performs Latino psychic space -- False identifications : minority populations mourn Diana -- "You are here" : hijos and the DNA of performance -- Staging traumatic memory : Yuyachkani -- Denise Stoklos : the politics of decipherability -- Lost in the field of vision : witnessing 9/11 -- Hemispheric performances.

ISBN: 0822331365 9780822331360 0822331233 9780822331230

LCCN: 2003006808

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Memory--Social aspects--America
Performance art--Political aspects--America
Performing arts--Political aspects--America
North and south
Postcolonialism--America
Postcolonialism and the arts--America
Ethnicity--America
Minorities--Social conditions--America

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
America--Civilization.
America--Ethnic relations

LC Class. No.: E20 / .T39 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 306.4848