{"product_id":"beyond-the-moment-connecting-histories-of-latinx-performance-and-resistance-9781477333570","title":"Beyond the Moment: Connecting Histories of Latinx Performance and Resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExploring cultural resistance by creating and archiving Latinx performance art \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Performance is often seen as ephemeral, a condition that seemingly reduces its activist possibilities. After all, not everyone can take part or bear witness. \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Moment\u003c\/i\u003e shows how Latinx artists have responded with a theater of dissent that endures--performance art that also documents and can itself be archived, creating opportunities for sustained solidarity and resistance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Through close readings of works such as Coco Fusco's multi-genre performance \u003ci\u003eA Field Guide for Female Interrogators\u003c\/i\u003e, Irene Mata theorizes what she calls \"textual mentoring.\" This method involves tracing previous moments of resistance, archiving the creative process itself, and transforming the performance into a pedagogical tool. By means of textual mentoring, a work like \u003ci\u003eThe Panza Monologues\u003c\/i\u003e becomes a lesson in confronting systemic oppression through collaborative storytelling. Mata also shows how the 2012 No Papers, No Fear Ride for Justice, a multistate immigrant-rights action, relies on a vocabulary of refusal of movements of the past--like the Freedom Rides of the Civil Rights era--and continues its activism beyond its immediate performance context by digitally archiving its process. With an emphasis on intersectional critique, \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Moment\u003c\/i\u003e positions performance as a radical form of resistance that educates and inspires across generations and movements. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Irene Mata is the director of the Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities and professor of American Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDomestic Disturbances: Re-Imagining Narratives of Gender, Labor, and Immigration\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52179284033810,"sku":"9781477333570","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_72a6d725-cfe6-444e-b911-d54321a00aa2.jpg?v=1775637695","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/beyond-the-moment-connecting-histories-of-latinx-performance-and-resistance-9781477333570","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}