List of Illustrations and Sources, Preface and Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART I Performance Documents, PART II Migrant Provocateurs: Further Chronicles, PART III Conversations Across the Border Fence, PART IV In Search of a New Topography
Guillermo Gomez-Pena
"Another valuable addition to the literature on world drama and
performance.."
-"Choice E.C. Ramirez, St. Philip's College, February 2001
..."this book is recommended for collections supporting
Chicana/Chicano topics, theater and drama, and performance art. All
levels.."
-"Choice E.C. Ramirez, St. Philip's College, February 2001
"Add[s] to the much-needed recent surge of publications on
performance art. Recommended for academic and other libraries with
specialized collections in contemporary art, theater, or Latin
culture."
-"Library Journal
"Gomez-Pena celebrates hybridity, borderless frontiers,
interdisciplinary art forms, linguistic amalgrams, cultural
collusions--virtually everything that partakes of "betweenness,"
especially the image of the Chicano cyborg, half human-half
machine. So it shouldn't surprise that the author's fifth book
confounds definition, fusing performance theory with performance
diaries, conversations, essays, scripts, commentaries for NPR,
travelogues, anecdotes and photographs of "living dioramas...." A
cross between Oscar Wilde and Lenny Bruce, witty and gritty and
brilliant, Gomez-Pena stretches language to the breaking point,
coining words and code shifting at will... Anyone interested in
contemporary performance theory should read this book. For the rest
of us, it is a cultural roller-coaster ride with decidedly
satirical seat belts.."
-"Publishers Weekly
"On the experimental front, this volume celebrates hybridity,
borderless frontiers, interdisciplinary artforms, linguistic
amalgams, cultural collisions-virtually everything that partakes of
"betweenness." The L.A.-transplanted Mexican writer and performance
artist, now acommentator on NPR, uses the startling image of a
Chicano cyborg to exemplify the "betweenness," stretching language
to the breaking point, coining words and code-shifting at
will."
-"San Antonio Express-News
"Another valuable addition to the literature on world drama and
performance.."
-"Choice E.C. Ramirez, St. Philip's College, February 2001
..."this book is recommended for collections supporting
Chicana/Chicano topics, theater and drama, and performance art. All
levels.."
-"Choice E.C. Ramirez, St. Philip's College, February 2001
"Add[s] to the much-needed recent surge of publications on
performance art. Recommended for academic and other libraries with
specialized collections in contemporary art, theater, or Latin
culture."
-"Library Journal
"Gomez-Pena celebrates hybridity, borderless frontiers,
interdisciplinary art forms, linguistic amalgrams, cultural
collusions--virtually everything that partakes of "betweenness,"
especially the image of the Chicano cyborg, half human-half
machine. So it shouldn't surprise that the author's fifth book
confounds definition, fusing performance theory with performance
diaries, conversations, essays, scripts, commentaries for NPR,
travelogues, anecdotes and photographs of "living dioramas...." A
cross between Oscar Wilde and Lenny Bruce, witty and gritty and
brilliant, Gomez-Pena stretches language to the breaking point,
coining words and code shifting at will... Anyone interested in
contemporary performance theory should read this book. For the rest
of us, it is a cultural roller-coaster ride with decidedly
satirical seat belts.."
-"Publishers Weekly
"On the experimental front, this volume celebrates hybridity,
borderless frontiers, interdisciplinary artforms, linguistic
amalgams, cultural collisions-virtually everything that partakes of
"betweenness." The L.A.-transplanted Mexican writer and performance
artist, now acommentator on NPR, uses the startling image of a
Chicano cyborg to exemplify the "betweenness," stretching language
to the breaking point, coining words and code-shifting at
will."
-"San Antonio Express-News
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