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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Taylor, Diana, 1950- Disappearing acts. Durham : Duke University Press, ©1997 (OCoLC)606112862 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Diana Taylor |
ISBN: | 0822318776 9780822318774 0822318687 9780822318682 |
OCLC Number: | 34996080 |
Description: | xii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1. Caught in the Spectacle -- 2. Gendering the National "Self" -- 3. Military Males, "Bad" Women, and a Dirty, Dirty War -- 4. The Theatre of Operations: Performing Nation-ness in the Public Sphere -- 5. Percepticide -- 6. Disappearing Bodies: Writing Torture and Torture as Writing -- 7. Trapped in Bad Scripts: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo -- 8. Staging Battles of Gender and Nation-ness: Teatro Abierto 1981 -- 9. Crossing the Line: Watching Violence in the "Other" Country. |
Responsibility: | Diana Taylor. |
Abstract:
Looks at how national identity is shaped, gendered, and contested through spectacle and spectatorship. The specific identity in question is that of Argentina, and the focus of this book is directed toward the years 1976 to 1983 in which the Argentine armed forces were pitted against the Argentine people.
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"Stunning, in every sense. Disappearing Acts is a compelling performance in words and in pictures of the seductions played by Argentina's dictatorship."-Doris Sommer, Harvard University "Disappearing Acts is brilliant. Clearly written, passionate, informed, will-argued, interesting in the extreme, it is a model piece of scholarship."-Richard Schechner, New York University Read more...
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