Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas

This book offers an innovative examination of the utopian impulse through performance as a proposition of practical engagement in the contemporary Americas. The volume compiles unique multidisciplinary and exploratory texts, applying diverse critical and artistic approaches. Its contributors reconceptualize utopia as a creative and theoretical method based on a commitment to sociopolitical transformation. Chapters are organized around notions of mapping utopias, indigenizing practices, political manifestations, and the construction of social identities.

• | Author: Kim Beauchesne, Alessandra Santos
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: May 11, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 342 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 1137571543
• | ISBN-13: 9781137571540