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245 10 |a Precarious forms : |b performing utopia in the neoliberal Americas / |c Candice Amich.

505 0_ |a Introduction. Performing Utopia in the Neoliberal Americas -- Menstrual Threads and Utopian Trash: Cecilia Vicu???a and the Reconstruction of Cultural Memory -- Liberation Elegies: Utopian Longings, Utopian Failure -- Earth-Body Works: Ana Mendieta and the Reanimation of Site -- Transborder Simulations: Coco Fusco, Ricardo Dominguez, and the EZLN Alternative -- Necropastorals: Ra?ol Zurita's Screeching Landscapes -- Cruel Acts: Regina Jos?? Galindo and the Limits of Witness -- Conclusion. Political Tears.

520 __ |a "Precarious Forms: Performing Utopia in the Neoliberal Americas explores how performance art and poetry transmit utopian desires, even in the bleakest of times. Candice Amich argues that utopian longing in the neoliberal Americas paradoxically arises from the material conditions of socioeconomic crisis. Working across national, linguistic, and generic boundaries, Amich identifies new political and affective modes of reception in her examination of resistant art forms. She locates texts embedded in the activist struggles of the global south, where neoliberal extraction and exploitation most palpably reanimate the colonial and imperial legacies of earlier stages of capitalism"-- |c Provided by publisher.