Performances that Change the Americas

List of Figures

Chapter 1: Introduction

Case Studies in Activist Performance

Stuart A. Day, the University of Kansas

Chapter 2:

Playing Creole: Circus Dramas, the Theater Marketplace, and Urban Society in Argentina and Uruguay

William Acree, Washington University in St. Louis

Chapter 3:

BASTA: Reactivating Bodies and the Dramaturgy of Femicides in Argentina

Paola Hernandez, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Chapter 4:

Carnival in Hell: Kinetic Dissidence and the New Queer Carnivalesque in Contemporary Brazil

Pablo Assumpcao Barros Costa, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Brazil

Chapter 5:

Absent Bodies and Melted Weapons: Art and Social Change in Contemporary Colombia

Gaston Alzate and Paola Marin, California State University, Los Angeles

Chapter 6:

Queering Abiayala: Personal and Political Cartographies of the Indigenous Americas

Tiffany D. Creegan Miller, Colby College

Chapter 7:

Music, Poetry, and Creolite in the Songs of Carole Demesmin, Singer, Troubadour, and Activist

Cecile Accilien, Kennesaw State University

Chapter 8:

An Island in Crisis: Theater Groups and Social Change in Puerto Rico in the New Millennium

Priscilla Melendez, Trinity College

Chapter 9:

Performing the Revolution: Castro's Cuba

Marta M. Caminero-Santangelo, University of Kansas

Chapter 10

The Queer/Muxe Performance of Disappearance:
Lukas Avendano's Butterfly Utopia

Antonio Prieto Stambaugh, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico

Chapter 11

"Why Are the Canadian Authorities Afraid of This Play?"

Eight Men Speak and Section 98 of the Criminal Code of Canada

Alan Filewod

Index