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Artificial Savages in a Transcultural Landscape Performance Art, Political Intention, and the Aesthetic Projects of Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Coco Fusco, Violeta Luna, Roberto Sifuentes, and La Pocha Nostra
By William Stark
Copyright 2026
346 Pages
71 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
346 Pages
71 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This monograph explores the work of scholars and performance artists from the United States (U.S.) and México to expose the dire realities of white nationalist agendas in a global community.
In this volume, William Stark, PhD, considers the U.S.-México borderlands in terms of sociocultural and sociopolitical critiques established by performance artists and scholars Coco Fusco, Guillermo... Read more
Introduction 1. La Pocha Nostra and Radical Performance Pedagogy 2. Guillermo Gómez-Peña: From Border Brujo to El Naftazteca 3. Coco Fusco, Colonial Spectacle, and the Gendered Machine of Empire 4. Violeta Luna: Performing Mexicana Indigenous Identities: Woman of Maize—La Llorona Cibernética 5. Roberto Sifuentes and the Cyber-Baroque Aesthetics of the Post-National Body Conclusion: Looking Ahead: Performing Radical Tenderness and Collective Truth
Biography
William Stark is Professor of Spanish at the University of Rhode Island, U.S.
