(Con)Fusing Signs and Postmodern Positions: Spanish American Performance, Experimental Writing, and the Critique of Political Confusion

by Robert Neustadt

Overview

Foregrounding a strategy of experimental techniques which Neustadt call (con)fusing signs, the book explores critical and political dimensions of contemporary Spanish American artistic practices that are often explained away in the vague name of postmodern fragmentation. ( Con)Fusing Signs explores the techniques, consequences and purposes for this type of fragmentation. This study reassesses the much discussed crisis of representation through an analysis of the complexity of political critique in areas as diverse (and related) as postmodernity, military dictatorship and postcolonialism. This book explores the manner in which multimedia artists Diamela Eltit, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Guillermo G-mez-Pe-a articulate political critiques through textual (con)fusion while paradoxically underscoring their inability to get outside of discourse.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135579265
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/12/2012
Series:	Latin American Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Robert Neustadt

Table of Contents

Illustrations, Series Preface, Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1. (Con)Fusing Approaches to a Postmodern Position, 2. Diamela Eltit: Clearing Space for a Critical Performance, 3. Alejandro Jodorowsky: Reiterating Chaos, Rattling the Cage of Representation, 4. Guillermo Gómez-Peña: Re-Drawing the Borders, 5. Conclusion, Works Cited, Index