{"product_id":"freak-performances-9780472073917","title":"Freak Performances","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough an analysis of experimental theater, dance theater, performance art, and gallery-based installation art across eight countries, Analola Santana explores the theoretical issues shaped by the encounters and negotiations between different bodies in the current Latin American landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSantana cleverly locates her study in defining and re-defining abject bodies within the heavy weight of colonization that Latin America has suffered from the time of the conquest to today . . . [She] finds how these ‘freak' bodies have encountered, resisted, and hoped for a better present and future.\"\" - Paola Hernández, University of Wisconsin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"An important contribution to the scholarly debates around colonialism, coloniality, and neoliberalism through the prism of aesthetics, performance, embodiment, abjection, race, gender, sexuality, and ableisms . . . a theoretically sophisticated and eminently readable analysis of how the ‘freak' comes to embody a broad range of deviant and non-normative positions: the queer, the colonial, the abject, the criminal, the neoliberal.\"\" - Diana Taylor, New York University","brand":"The University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037119152471,"sku":"9780472073917","price":68.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780472073917.jpg?v=1750934508","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/freak-performances-9780472073917","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}