Abject performances : aesthetic strategies in Latino cultural production

Abject performances : aesthetic strategies in Latino cultural production / Leticia Alvarado.

"In Abject Performances Leticia Alvarado draws out the irreverent, disruptive aesthetic strategies used by Latino artists and cultural producers who shun standards of respectability that are typically used to conjure concrete minority identities. In place of works imbued with pride, redemption,...

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Main Author: Alvarado, Leticia, 1982- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Series:Dissident acts.
Subjects:
Hispanic American mass media > Social aspects.
Hispanic American arts > Social aspects.
Hispanic Americans and mass media.
Mass media and culture.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Sublime abjection
  • Other desires : Ana Mendieta's abject imaginings
  • Phantom assholes : Asco's affective vortex
  • Of Betties decorous and abject : Ugly Betty's America la fea and Nao Bustamante's America la bella
  • Arriving at apostasy : performative testimonies of ambivalent belonging
  • Conclusion: Abject embodiment.

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